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Editor s note: In honor of Independence Day this year, we mark 245 years since the United States parted with Great Britain we present the nation s founding document, the Declaration of Independence.
Last year, against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Daniel Prude and the failures of the Trump administration, we shared our view that the United States has not always lived up to the Declaration s creed. Further, we believe the national conversation on racial equity and justice must force the nation to finally and truly embrace the notions of universal liberty and equality.
An NPR Tradition, Here s The Reading Of The Declaration Of Independence
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Editorial: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident’ >The original rough draft the Declaration of Independence, in Thomas Jefferson s handwriting with edits by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and the Second Continental Congress. This draft is located in the Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress. (AP Photo) AP
Published: 7/3/2021 10:30:07 PM
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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 re wishing everyone a wonderful Independence Day celebrating America s founding. Author: WLTX Updated: 12:02 AM EDT July 4, 2021
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The holiday, of course, commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, which formally split the United States from Britain.
The legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain actually occurred on July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia. (Founding father John Adams believed that it would be July 2nd that would forever be the day remembered by Americans with celebrations and fireworks. But alas.)
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Revolución que tuvo un final feliz.
Declaracion de la Independencia
4 de julio de 1776
Cuando en el curso de los acontecimientos humanos se hace necesario para un pueblo disolver los vínculos políticos que lo han ligado a otro y tomar entre las naciones de la tierra el puesto separado e igual a que las leyes de la naturaleza y el Dios de esa naturaleza le dan derecho, un justo respeto al juicio de la humanidad exige que declare las causas que lo impulsan a la separación.
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