The 4th day of July 1776

Happy 4th of July everyone. My plans for today are to work then hopefully go see a fireworks show. I say hopefully because i don't know when it actually starts.

I also find it interesting that we celebrate our independence of July 4th. Congress passed the resolution to become independent from Great Britain on July 2nd, and it is commonly believed that the declaration wasn't actually signed until a month later.

Another Interesting fact John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the only two signers who became president, died on the same day, July 4th, 1826. That same day marked the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

Have a safe and happy Independence Day, and be sure to keep all you fingers.

btemplates

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