The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Carl Becker

9780265368053: The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0265368057 ISBN 13: 9780265368053

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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IT is often forgotten that the document which we know as the Declaration of Independence is not the official act by which the Continental Congress voted in favor of separation from Great Britain. June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, on behalf of the Virginia delegation, submitted to the Continental Congress three resolutions, of which the first declared that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free.

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