#declaration-of-independence — Public Fediverse posts
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The History Wars and America at 250, with the Historian Jill Lepore
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Understanding References to God in the Declaration of Independence
📰 Original title: What the Declaration of Independence does – and doesn’t – say about God
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/understanding-references-to-god-in-the-declaration-of-independence/?redirpost=59a563f5-dfaf-4245-9703-467af407b182
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NO KINGS: Not Alone!
This past Saturday, I and about 40,000 other Philadelphians amassed at Ben Franklin Parkway here in Philadelphia for the 3rd No Kings Rally. Though I wanted to attend the first two, held in June and October of 2025, prior commitments prevented me from doing so. This time around, I was in town and available, so there was no way I was going to miss it. I wasn't sure what to expect at the rally, but what I experienced that day was something I didn't even realize I needed... These days, it's […]https://johnsworldblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/no-kings-not-alone/
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Things you might not know about Dallas: We have an original copy of the Declaration of Independence
https://www.dmagazine.com/micropost/dallas-public-library-declaration-of-independence/
#Dallas #Library #Texas #Shakespeare #FirstFolio #TexasCenterForTheBook #DeclarationOfIndependence #DallasPublicLibrary #DMagazine #BethanyErickson
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Mary Katharine Goddard nsigned the Declaration of Independence and risked hanging by doing so. Most people don’t know who she was or why she signed it. Review-> #BookThreads #BookSky #Bookstagram #DeclarationofIndependence #MysticOwlPublishing #HistoricalFiction #Netgalley #ARCReview #WomensFiction
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Letters from an American – February 11, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
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Letters from an American, February 11, 2026
By Heather Cox Richardson, Feb 11, 2026
On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham.
Abraham Lincoln grew up to become the nation’s sixteenth president, leading the country from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865, a little over a month into his second term. He piloted the country through the Civil War, preserving the concept of American democracy. It was a system that had never been fully realized but that he still saw as “the last, best hope of earth” to prove that people could govern themselves.
“Four score and seven years ago,” he told an audience at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in November 1863, “our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Lincoln dated the founding of the nation from the Declaration of Independence rather than the Constitution, the document enslavers preferred because of that document’s protection of property. In the Declaration, the Founders wrote that they held certain “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.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed….”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: February 11, 2026 – by Heather Cox Richardson
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, All men are created equal, Declaration of Independence, Four Score, Gettysburg, Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American, Substack, U.S. Constitution, United States
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#CallforPapers #CfP by the Obama Institute Mainz for a student #conference
topic: “‘We Hold These Truths’? 250 Years Later
deadline: February 28, 2026
conference dates: June 19- 20, 2026.#DeclarationOfIndependence #America250 #AmericanStudies #USA250
link for details: http://www.obama-institute.com/call-for-papers-we-hold-these-truths-250-years-later/
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Take a few minutes to read the US #declarationofindependence and think about what is going on today.
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A quotation from Abraham Lincoln
Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1854-08-24) to Joshua SpeedMore about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2555…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abrahamlincoln #abelincoln #america #createdequal #DeclarationOfIndependence #despotism #equality #liberty #prejudice #racism #tyranny #xenophobia
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Trump favors Potomac park for Garden of American Heroes https://www.allforgardening.com/1567808/trump-favors-potomac-park-for-garden-of-american-heroes/ #DeclarationOfIndependence #DonaldTrump #garden #gardener #gardening #IndependenceDay #WashingtonD.C.
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To our #US cousins,
I'm guessing as children you were all taught about the #DeclarationofIndependence. You probably had it drummed into you as a proud part of your nations history, and rightly so. I have just read it for the first time in my life, surprisingly it was skimmed over most briefly in my history lessons here in the UK. A couple of sections jumped out at me... 1/2
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What a joke
#JohnRoberts' annual report
The chief justice touted #JudicialIndependence & urged Americans to keep faith in the #Constitution in year-end statement
Focusing on the #DeclarationOfIndependence as the nation turns to its 250th anniversary, Roberts said the #founders chafed at the crown’s control of colonial courts & “corrected this flaw” by setting up a #judiciary that would operate without interference from the other branches.
#law #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt
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Among the Unalienable Rights
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/19/among-the-unalienable-rights/
Nothing will chill Tucker Carlson’s exercise of the freedom of speech, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. But that does not absolve Chuck Schumer and the U.S. Senate. By Andrew P. Napolitano CN at 30 Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of…
#Politics #Commentary #FreeSpeech #U.s. #U.s.Congress #U.s.Constitution #AndrewP.Napolitano #DeclarationOfIndependence #FirstAmendment #JamesMadison #NaturalLaw #NickFuentes #TuckerCarlson -
#BenFranklin famously said at the signing of the #DeclarationofIndependence, "We must all hang TOGETHER, or we shall ALL hang SEPARATELY." The 23 #Democratic AG's are most ASSUREDLY hanging together to defend #democracy and the rule of law. They join @[email protected] youtu.be/xyJhWurdGiw?...
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Free Virtual Lecture: "The German Audience for the U.S. Declaration of Independence" on Thursday 20 November 2025 @ 6:00 pm ET.
Free registration required to receive a Zoom link.Almost immediately after being adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the United States Declaration of Independence was translated into German. Learn about the first German-language broadsides and newspaper printings of the Declaration, the importance of German printers in Philadelphia, and the different approaches to translation taken in the United States and in Europe.
#America250 #Free #Webinar #DeclarationOfIndependence #GermanLanguage #Translation #Printers #Philadelphia #AmericanRevolution
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Unalienable: impossible to take away or give up
#declarationofindependence #foundingfathers #uspol #trump #fascism
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But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-07-03) to Abigail AdamsMore info about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/35233/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #anxiety #belief #DeclarationOfIndependence #faith #fear #God #hope #nerves #prayer #providence #religion #worry
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When a person is naturalized as a #US citizen, they receive not just a new #citizenship but also typically a few other objects: an American flag, a copy of the #DeclarationOfIndependence & the #Constitution, & a greeting from the president. Of these, the last is the most ephemeral—just a form letter—but it can reveal a great deal about how the writer thinks about the country he leads.
This week, the White House released #Trump’s new version of the letter.
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@ALittleBitOfEverything the #christiannationalists are attacking #timkaine’s remarks that “god given rights” (which the #declarationofindependence says is the basis of our #democracy ) is “what the Iranian government believes.”
#republicans counter that if government is the source of our rights, then government can take them away
How is that any different than the #christiannationalist’s using their interpretation of their god to taking our rights away?
https://christianaction.org/u-s-senator-says-our-rights-dont-come-from-god/
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A quotation from Abraham Lincoln
It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the motherland; but something in the Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1861-02-22), Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaMore info about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2474…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abrahamlincoln #abelincoln #DeclarationofIndependence #equalopportunity #freedom #humanrights #humanity #liberty #revolution
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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 Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-07-03, p.m.) to Abigail AdamsMore info about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/5205/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #America #DeclarationofIndependence #endsandmeans #prophecy #struggle
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The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. — I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.
John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-07-03, p.m.) to Abigail AdamsSourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-john/6048/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #celebration #DeclarationOfIndependence #FourthOfJuly #independence #independenceday
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"we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."
That's called deciding to win.
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"But when 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."
#DeclarationOfIndependence #Freedom #Liberty #DeposeKingTrump #Autocracy #Tyranny #Dictatorship #Friday
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Americans must reckon with the fact that President Donald Trump’s administration has largely abandoned the principles underpinning the Declaration of Independence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/11/world/trumps-rejects-americas-founding-principles/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #declarationofindependence #usconstitution #donaldtrump #us #immigration #trade