Wednesday, July 4, 2007
INDEPENDENCE DAY
Americans celebrate their independence from the British on this day.
July 4th commemorates the approval of the Declaration of Independence
signed the Declaration on August 2, 1776, the first signature being
that of John Hancock. Several signatures were obtained later ...
George Wythe (Virginia) on August 27; Richard Henry Lee (Virginia),
Elbridge Gerry (Massachusetts), Oliver Wolcott (Connecticut) signed in
September; Matthew Thornton (New Hampshire) in November. Thomas
McKean, representing Delaware, was serving in the army and was
Thomas Jefferson was the major author of the Declaration of
Independence, but he had help from John Adams, Benjamin Franklin,
Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman. Following the natural rights
secure these rights; when they failed to do so, the people could
abolish them. This one statement alone was considered as treason to
the British crown.
And so, at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John
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