TGIF: Congress Declares Independence
Filed Under: Anything Peaceful
Tags: American Revolution • Declaration of Independence • July 4th • Thomas Jefferson
What a difference a year can make. On July 6, 1775, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, issued the Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms. Significantly, the document declared, “We have not raised armies with ambitious designs of separating from Great Britain establishing independent states.”
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