Posted on 07/03/2020 9:17:45 PM PDT by Perseverando
38-year-old King George III ruled the largest empire that planet earth had ever seen.
The Declaration of Independence, signed JULY 4, 1776, listed 27 reasons why Americans declared their independence from the King:
-He has made judges dependent on his will alone ...
-He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
-He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies ...
-To subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution ...
-For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us ...
-For imposing taxes on us without our consent ...
-For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of trial by jury ...
-For ... establishing ... an arbitrary government ...
-For ... altering fundamentally the forms of our governments ...
-He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
-He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny ...
-He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."
33-year-old Thomas Jefferson's original rough draft of the Declaration contained a line condemning slavery:
"He has waged cruel war against human nature itself ... in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither ...
... suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce determining to keep open a market where MEN
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P.S. Happy Independence Day, Freepers! May God continue to bless America and may America bless Him!
Damn straight.
244 and a whole lot more... God bless the USA!
Amen!!!
Happy Birthday, America. It is hard to believe, but I am honored to say that I have been here for 27.5% of your existence.
I don’t know why that seemed like a lot until I did the math :)
It’s such a YOUNG country and I guess I forgot for a second.
Being alive for 27 percent of China’s existence would be a feat!! :)
The oldest current American has been alive for almost half the time America has been in existence. That’s incredible.
Happy Birthday America. Have a happy Fourth everyone. God Bless America.
Wow! Thanks for the thought. That means I’ve been here for 33.1% of our Nation’s existence. One source of pride is having served in Uncle Sam’s Army for 3 years and 11 months. Booyah!
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