Thursday Things: Independence Day Edition
4 July 2024. Vol 6 No 27. By Dan McGirt. #256
It’s Thursday Things! This week we celebrate America’s Independence Day.
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4th of July
It’s Independence Day! The 4th of July! America’s birthday!
You have far more important things to do than read an email newsletter.
But as long as you’re here, let me give you a link to the full text of the Declaration of Independence via the National Archives:
Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
I like to read the whole thing every Independence Day.
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 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 mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Read the rest at the link!1
Have a cookout. Enjoy your day off. Watch a movie. Watch the fireworks. We’ll see you next Thursday.
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Spoiler alert: We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States;