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On the 25th of June, a declaration of the deputies of Pennsylvania, met in provincial conference, expressing their willingness to concur in a vote declaring the United Colonies free and inde-pendent States, was laid before Congress and read.
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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. View the document on the National Constitution Center’s website here. SUMMARY. On July 4, 1776, the United States officially declared its independence from the British Empire when the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.
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On July 2, 1776, after months of deliberation and while directing battle in the colonies and Canada, the Second Continental Congress voted to declare the “united States of America” separate and independent from Britain. On July 4, the Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration, written primarily by Thomas Jefferson.
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1776. Xiteral print. WASHINGTON. Department of State 1911. IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776. The Unanimous Declaration Of The Thirteen United. States Of America, WHEN in the Course of human events, it. becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political.
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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 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 mankin...
SAML. ADAMS, ROBT. TREAT PAINE, JOHN ADAMS, ELBRIDGE GERRY.
ROGER SHERMAN, WM. WILLIAMS, SAM’EL HUNTINGTON, OLIVER WOLCOTT.
FLOYD, FRANS. LEWIS, PHIL. LIVINGSTON, LEWIS MORRIS.
RICHD. STOCKTON, JOHN HART, JNO. WITHERSPOON, ABRA. CLARK. FRAS. HOPKINSON,
ROBT. MORRIS, JAS. SMITH, BENJAMIN RUSH, GEO. TAYLOR, BENJA. FRANKLIN, JAMES WILSON, JOHN MORTON, GEO. ROSS. GEO. CLYMER,
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THOS. HEYWARD, THOMAS LYNCH, Junr., Junr., ARTHUR MIDDLETON. EDWARD RUTLEDGE,
The Declaration of Independence. Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776) The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America 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
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