Independence Day

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Happy Independence Day! Two hundred thirty-seven years ago to the day, 4 July 1776, the United States of America was proclaimed by an act of the Second Continental Congress, through which the thirteen colonies declared their independence from the British Empire. The first modern democratic republic, the United States is the political, economic, military, & cultural leader of the world; there are to-day more persons living on Earth than ever before, & they are more prosperous, longer-lived, & more free than at any other time in the course of human events. America was at the forefront of the defeats of Nazism & Communism, & to-day leads the fight against Islamist terrorism. Twelve Americans have set foot on the Moon, the only humans to have done so. The American president is rightly described as the most powerful man in the world, as well as the leader of the free world. The United States is a beacon of liberty & the worlds greatest champion of popular sovereignty as the only legitimate basis for government. The world that would exist had the Unites States never been declared, or had the mad tyrant King George III of Great Britain prevailed in the Revolutionary War, would be unrecognizable to you & I. All due to the simple, unbelievably powerful ideas that no man has the hereditary right to control the destiny of another & that governments exist to serve the interests of the commoners, not the other way around. The Unites States of America declared its independence from the British Crown, two hundred thirty-seven years ago to-day.



Wrote John Adams:

"The [fourth] day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more."

The Rebel Black Dot Song of Independence Day
John Philip Sousa, "The Washington Post March" via iTunes (T.L.A.M.)