@Supposenot @Free_Press There is no mention of political parties in the #Constitution. And geographical representation is noted for all signers of the #DeclarationOfIndependence , but not a single party affiliation.

#MATH can #SaveAmerica from political extremism. #PrimaryFromTheCenter

«Just over half way through interview.. #JohnEastman gets in2 core justification & purpose 4 trying 2 overturn results of #2020election & overthrow the #ConstitutionalOrder itself. He invokes the #DeclarationOfIndependence & says quite clearly that yes, we were trying to #overthrow the government & argues they were justified because of the sheer #ExistentialThreat #America was under because of the election of #JoeBiden.»

#Insurrection #J6
#RepublicansAreTheProblem

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/john-eastman-comes-clean-hell-yes-we-were-trying-to-overthrow-the-government

Yale just posted recordings of their group readings the Declaration of Independence and Frederick Douglass's 1852 oration, "What to the Slave, is the Fourth of July? Both are powerful pieces worth actually lisening to.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-giUzqc19Q3XM9PZMNusvEwZw-ls0mfp

#july4th #declarationofindependence #frederickdouglass #HistoryMatters

Apropos of #July4, #immigrants, & #citizenship: when I was small, my father knew that I was already very interested in history & especially #VastEarlyAmerica, so when he went on a trip to Washington, he brought me large facsimiles of the #DeclarationOfIndependence, & #EmancipationProclamation, as well as a smaller folder with the texts of Declaration, Constitution, & Bill of Rights

In retrospect it seems appropriate that the set represented the completion of the promise of the Declaration

7/n

BTW to be clear: in emphasizing some of the limits of the in the early nation, I'm not trying to be a downer on #july4
It was just that I posted about Fredrick Douglass, and, well, you know how threads evolve.

And Douglass himself ended, as he put it, "where I began, with hope," "drawing encouragement from 'the #DeclarationOfIndependence the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions."

5/n

The Boston Globe noted the obvious omissions from the #DeclarationOfIndependence, such as the rights of enslaved people & women

What is less well known is that, even once all adult white males were allowed to vote and the Bill of Rights guaranteed religious freedom, religious tests for public office remained in effect in some states: e.g. in Virginia until 1826, and in New Hampshire--where slavery remained legal till the end of the Civil War--until 1877.

https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/american-jewry/14147/when-freedom-began-to-ring/

4/n

It would be nice if we moved closer to the ideals expressed in this document.
Happy 4th of July. 🇺🇸
#declarationofindependence #FourthOfJuly #unitedstates #Justice #equality #Freedom

A quotation from Mencken, H. L.:

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When things get so balled up that the people of a country got to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting maybe God Almighty, then they ought to let everybody know why they done it, so that everybody can see they are not trying to put nothing over on…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/mencken-hl/28230/

#quote #quotes #quotation #America #DeclarationofIndependence

Tracy K. Smith's, Declaration, is erasure poetry at its finest.

#Poetry #ErasurePoetry #DeclarationOfIndependence

Did you know that the #DeclarationOfIndependence refers to Native people as "#MercilessIndianSavages"? Read more about its relation to Dior Sauvage here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/schemesbecomesch-83963775?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

A quotation from Adams, John:

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I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transac…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/adams-john/5205/

#quote #quotes #quotation #America #DeclarationofIndependence

#OnThisDay, July 4, in 1776, the United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress (depicted in 1776, 1972)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #DeclarationOfIndependence #SecondContinentalCongress #SeventeenSeventySix #Histodons @histodons #July4 #July4th #4thOfJuly #FourthOfJuly #JulyFourth #IndependenceDay

Just now learning this is in the #DeclarationOfIndependence
"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."

Dude. Why is this still there?
#FourthOfJuly

Key Voting Milestones
* 1776 #DeclarationOfIndependence set goals for the future #republic
* 1789-- #Constitution grants states power to set voting rules mostly limited to property owning/tax-paying white men (~6% of Americans)
*1879--#15thAmend "guarantees" right (for men) to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
* 1920--19thAmend allows Women to vote
*1924--Fed law forced states to recognize Indigenous American's right to vote

#Vote #July4th

https://www.loudounnow.com/news/loudoun/virginia-loudoun-prepare-for-america-s-250th/article_6f291994-19d8-11ee-902c-5ff151c0fc99.html?

If you are in #northernVirginia tomorrow, #history #educators will again meet for a public reading of the #DeclarationOfIndependence Join us.

Where ever you find yourself, I invite all lovers of the great project of #liberty and #equality that is the United States of America, to spend some time pondering the words of the Declaration of Independence. It is our declaration and at 247 years there is much to celebrate and much that remains unfinished. #Histodons

As I observe #IndependenceDay, I think about the importance of the aspirations set out in the #DeclarationOfIndependence that “all [people] are created equal”; the “unalienable #rights of #Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”; and that a just #government derives its authority from “consent of the governed”.

I think we need to remember the on-going struggle to ensure all citizens have the opportunity to grant their consent to be governed.
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Did you know that Thomas Jefferson was only 33 years old when he wrote the Declaration of Independence?

#declarationofindependence

References
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[1] "Thomas Jefferson", https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/thomas-jefferson/

As Americans prepare to celebrate Independence Day, there is something they ought to keep in mind:

“Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

#DeclarationOfIndependence #RightToRevolt

#July4th, #FourthOfJuly, #DeclarationOfIndependence, #ThomasJefferson, #SallyHemmings, #FoundingFathers, #AffirmativeAction, #EdlitorialCartoon, #PolticalCartoon, @Rattoons1776

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/06/declarations?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=76469

On this July 4 weekend, I’m preaching on how the intersection of church and state can be a good thing.
#Episcopal
#DeclarationOfIndependence
#BaptismalCovenant