Keep your name out of the debate!
When the Declaration of Independence was under the consideration of Congress, there were two or three unlucky expressions [condemning slavery] in it which gave offense to some members … Although the...
View ArticleYour rights come from where? Government’s power from where?
We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with [inherent and] certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and...
View ArticleIs the cause worth EVERYTHING to you?
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude [Webster’s7th New Collegiate, “moral...
View ArticleTwo Declaration of Independence rejects
The pusillanimous [timid, cowardly] idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For this reason those passages which conveyed censures on the people...
View ArticleWhat do you oppose? What does that say about you?
As the sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also, I will state the form of the declaration as originally reported. The parts struck out by Congress shall be...
View ArticleMore than you ever wanted to know about the Declaration of Independence
In Honor of this Special Day On June 7, 1776, Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress declaring independence from England. Congress set it aside...
View ArticleAnti-slavery deleted from the Declaration of Independence
he [the King of England] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people [Africans] who never offended him,...
View ArticleThanks, Mr. Jefferson, for writing the Constitution! (WRONG!)
… one passage, in the paper you inclosed me, must be corrected. it is the following. ‘and all say that it was yourself more than any other individual, that planned & established it.’ i.e. the...
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