In Philadelphia, American and British lawyers have debated the legality of America's founding documents.
On Tuesday night, while Republican candidates in Nevada were
debating such American issues as nuclear waste disposal and the
immigration status of Mitt Romney's gardener, American and British
lawyers in Philadelphia were taking on a far more fundamental topic.
Namely, just what did Thomas Jefferson think he was doing?
Some background: during the hot and sweltering summer of
1776, members of the second Continental Congress travelled to
Philadelphia to discuss their frustration with royal rule.
By 4 July, America's founding fathers approved a simple
document penned by Jefferson that enumerated their grievances and
announced themselves a sovereign nation.
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The Declaration of IndependenceWhen a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”
Called the Declaration of Independence, it was a blow for freedom, a call to war, and the founding of a new empire.
It was also totally illegitimate and illegal.
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