Howdy everyone! Happy Independence day!
We are 237 years removed from the day 56 men of the Continental Congress in Philly signed the Declaration of Independence. It's easy to forget the relevance of these holidays and replace them with a burger/beer party, but let's go ahead and give them their due (even if you just drank a bunch of beer and ate a burger as I did).
The signers of this document most certainly were signing their own death warrants. It was a treasonous act against the sovereign ruler at the time, the British Crown. The penalty for such acts was death. We owe the beginning of our great country to these brave leaders who put their necks on the line to form a better place to live.
When you watch the fireworks, remember these guys. Without them, we might all be subjects of British rule now.
We are 237 years removed from the day 56 men of the Continental Congress in Philly signed the Declaration of Independence. It's easy to forget the relevance of these holidays and replace them with a burger/beer party, but let's go ahead and give them their due (even if you just drank a bunch of beer and ate a burger as I did).
The signers of this document most certainly were signing their own death warrants. It was a treasonous act against the sovereign ruler at the time, the British Crown. The penalty for such acts was death. We owe the beginning of our great country to these brave leaders who put their necks on the line to form a better place to live.
When you watch the fireworks, remember these guys. Without them, we might all be subjects of British rule now.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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