Posted on 07/03/2025 4:18:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The uncommon achievements of common Americans birthed the United States.
Two hundred forty-nine years ago, a series of events culminated in America’s Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. On June 7, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia put forth a resolution for independence before the Second Continental Congress. On June 10, Congress postponed consideration of Lee’s resolution for three weeks as members struggled to build a consensus. Despite this uncertainty, more vocal proponents for independence persuaded Congress on June 11 to appoint a committee to draft a formal declaration.
That committee — consisting of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston — worked from June 12 to June 27. Or, more accurately, Jefferson worked on the Declaration, while Franklin and Adams provided several meaningful edits. On June 28, a draft of the committee’s work was read in Congress. After much debate and cajoling among representatives, the colonies officially severed ties with Great Britain on July 2. (This is the date that John Adams believed would be celebrated as an American holiday.)
With additional revisions to Jefferson’s work, Congress unanimously approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence on July 4 and ordered it printed. After the printing of about two hundred broadsides from John Dunlap’s Philadelphia print shop, The Pennsylvania Evening Post became the first newspaper to publish the Declaration on July 6. Finally, Colonel John Nixon is credited as having given the first public reading of the Declaration to a crowd on July 8 in the Pennsylvania State House Yard (now Independence Square).
In honor of that last event, park rangers from the National Park Service hold a re-enactment of the Declaration’s first public reading outside Independence Hall (formerly the State House) on July 8 each year. It is a grand spectacle
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Please don’t vote to throw your (and my) inheritance away. Especially people in NYC.
Please don’t assume your fellow Americans voted for this.
How much of our inheritance was voted away before a lot of us were even born?
I don't assume ALL Americans would vote away their inheritance. In the 2024 presidential election about 48.3% of voters, nation wide, voted for Kackling Kamala. That is almost half. In NYC it was in the 70% range.
Do I think 70% of NYC voters would vote for Zoltar? Sadly, I think it is possible.
Far too much. We seem to be in the process of clawing some of it back. It will be a battle and it won't all happen at once.
I am sure that this past election was the present 21st century example of what the article described as in 1776 both the “poor and wealthy Americans fought together for individual freedom, national self-determination, and independence from tyrannical government”. In that election a clear majority of Americans rose up to say we will not allow the the woke, unconstitutional, marxist. socialist. liberal mess that our government had become to take away our freedom and the constitution so many had fought so hard for.
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the first pioneers tried a form of proto socialism/communism their 1st year...
it almost killed them
the next year they tried freedom and prospered and our country became great.
happy no kings day , july 4th, America !!!
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