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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.
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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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