America’s Revolutionary Founders Would Be Anti-Government Extremists Today
Had the Declaration of Independence been written today, it would have rendered its signers extremists or terrorists, resulting in them being placed on a government watch list, targeted for surveillance of their activities and correspondence, and potentially arrested,...
The Declaration of Independence Birthed 13 Sovereign Nations
On July 4, people all across these United States of America shoot off fireworks, grill meat and march in patriotic parades to celebrate the “birth of a nation.” But that’s not at all what happened on July 4, 1776. A singular “nation” in...
Totally Dissolved: The Lee Resolution and the Declaration of Independence
Today in history, on July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed the Richard Henry Lee resolution, which called for ties between Great Britain and the American states to be “totally dissolved.” The monumental vote was unanimous among the colonies, with New...