Comments on: Rediscovering America http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/archives/2006/08/rediscovering-america/ I'm gonna say this once and once only. Stay out of Camberwick Green! Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:30:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mike http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/archives/2006/08/rediscovering-america/#comment-11975 Mike Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:42:54 +0000 http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/archives/2006/08/rediscovering-america/#comment-11975 Just a nit - but actually something did happen on July 4th - The declaration was ratified by the second continental congress. Thus rendering the declaration an official statement of the congress. It obviously took several drafts to create a document that the congress approved. But when, on July 4th, they did approve it, it become an official statement. Since the declaration contains the following statement: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 the 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. The date of ratification of the declaration is thus the date the United States came into being. Just a nit - but actually something did happen on July 4th - The declaration was ratified by the second continental congress. Thus rendering the declaration an official statement of the congress. It obviously took several drafts to create a document that the congress approved. But when, on July 4th, they did approve it, it become an official statement.
Since the declaration contains the following statement: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 the 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.
The date of ratification of the declaration is thus the date the United States came into being.

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