WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…”

July 4^th is a week away. Happy Birthday, America.

Two hundred and fifty years ago, fifty-six men gathered in Philadelphia and signed what was effectively their own death warrants.

Had the Revolution failed, there would have been no sympathy, no appeals, and no second chances. Treason against the British Crown carried a simple penalty: the hangman’s rope.

They knew it. The British knew it.

Yet they signed anyway.

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