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56 men met in the two hundred and forty years ago Pennsylvania State House In Philadelphia to commit betrayal against the most powerful empire of the earth.
These men represent 13 colonies of this empire – and a mixture of landowners, entrepreneurs, politicians and others – were in love with a new series of ideas that were from reconnaissance thinkers and Christian teaching. These convictions led them to start a war. No reasonable person believed that they could win.
Remember what the government looked like at the time. We now live in the world that have created 56 men – a world in which even dictatorships like North Korea surround themselves in the language of the “Republic”.
Detail of John Trumbull’s painting “Declaration of Independence”, which represents the five-man design committee of the explanation in which the congress is presented. (“Declaration of Independence” – Detail of John Trumbell’s painting)
But in 1776 freedom, equality and self -government were emerging concepts represented by philosophers and were only incomplete in a few small enclaves. The vast majority of the world were hereditary monarchies and rich, under which equality and individual freedom were not considered. The founder’s struggle seemed incomprehensible.
The second continental congress has largely commissioned a man at the start – Thomas Jefferson – With the elaboration of the document that would reorganize your vision for humanity and this new country and history.
Imagine it must have felt. From June 11th to 28th, Jefferson decided in a rented house in Market Street to design the document. He was 33 years old at the time. In isolation in this rented town house, he designed what I think is one of the most beautiful passages in the story:
We take these truths for granted that all people are created equally, that they are equipped with certain inalienable rights by their creator, that they are among these life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
The second continental congress largely commissioned a man – Thomas Jefferson – to develop the document, which would articulate their vision for humanity and this new country and this new story.
Read it again. Read it as if you were living under a Spanish colony in South America or under the iron fist of the Qing dynasty in China. Read it as if you were a poor tenant maker under the oppressive rule of King George in Virginia or a enslaved person in Georgia (whose freedom under the Principles of the explanation was still decades away).
Why the Maga movement is the revolution of our time from 1776
Read it as if you grew up in a system that assumed that you were less worth less than your neighbor due to your social center, and under which your future was limited by the circumstances of your birth.
The explanation was indeed a “revolutionary” statement that articulated the ideological and factual basis for a coup against empire. But spiritual it was more important than that.
It was a Revolution against history. It was a revolution against the idea that some men (and women) are worth more than others. It was a revolution for the idea of dignity, human rights and equality before the law.
American colonists stormed a statue of King George III on July 9, 1776. On bowling green in Lower Manhattan. (William Walcutt (1819-1895). Malt 1857)
And when Jefferson presented his document to the congress and these 56 men signed it and sent it to King George and other rulers around the world, they ignited a war in the colonies of America, which would become a centuries to transform Tyranny’s globe into freedom.
Read: The declaration of independence
They got war. Five of the signatories were captured, tortured and killed. Nine died of wounds or difficulties that fought in the war. Everyone was affected – thrown back through violence, their houses and their property devastated and their children get into the violence they created. They were hungry. They slaughtered lost.
You must have wondered whether it was worth it – these ideals that you had prompted you to violate a nation. And then they won unexpectedly.
In the creation of America, those Founding fathers Covered story. We now live in a world in which almost half of the countries are democracies. The combination of political freedom, free markets and the technological innovation that was unleashed by these systems has lifted billions of people out of poverty and created a world more than 100 times richer than that that existed at the time of the declaration of independence.
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The dominant ideology now is the articulated in the explanation worldwide. And the revolution in America has become a revolution in human history.
This weekend in the US Celebrate the independence day. We celebrate 56 men who risked everything. We also ceremoniously reflect on the indictment of the explanation and its authors.
All people are created the same. We are all equipped with inalienable rights by our creator. Each of us deserves life, freedom and the ability to pursue our own unique ways to thrive. However, these inalienable rights are not guaranteed. As our ancestors, we are appointed to hug them and fight for them.
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Abraham Lincoln once noticed that big men “thirst and fire after distinction” and “, be it at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaves of free men”. And all over the world, the powers that oppose freedom, dignity and opportunities are struggling to dominate others.
May we strike back on this independence day. May we have boldness and conviction to oppose the enemies of freedom and continue to fight for the promise of the explanation and the spiritual foundation of America. May we do that out of love – for our neighbors and for the Blessing of the Creator. And we like courage to win the example of these 56 men, their hundreds of thousands of country teachers and the unlettable war and the unfortunate war they won. Happiness day.
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