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	Declaration of Independence (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The full Declaration was rewritten somewhat in general session prior to its adoption by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, at the Pennsylvania State House.
		The Declaration of Independence was signed with the Syng inkstand, which is on display at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
		The United States Declaration of Independence was influenced by the 1581 Dutch Republic declaration of independence, called the Oath of Abjuration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence (2237 words)

	United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The US became a center for innovation and technological development; major technologies that America either developed or was greatly involved in improving include the telephone, television, computer, the Internet, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, aviation, and aeronautics.
		With the Declaration of Independence, the thirteen colonies proclaimed themselves to be nation states modeled after the European states of the time.
		U.S. music is heard all over the world, and it is the sire of such forms as blues and jazz and had a primary hand in the shaping of modern rock and roll and popular music culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/US (5789 words)

	MSN Encarta - Declaration of Independence
		Declaration of Independence, document in American history used by the 13 British North American colonies to proclaim their independence from Great Britain.
		The Declaration of Independence was adopted in final form on July 4, 1776.
		For the American colonists, the declaration was an announcement to the rest of the world that the colonies were independent from Great Britain; it also provided a rationale for this action.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559234/Declaration_of_Independence.html (1217 words)

	Declaration of Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Historic US document stating the theory of government on which the USA was founded, based on the right ‘to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’.
		The statement was issued by the Continental Congress on 4 July 1776, renouncing all allegiance to the British crown and ending the political connection with Britain.
		The declaration enumerated the grievances the colonists harboured against the British crown, which included its use of American Indians to attack colonists, taxation without representation, and denial of civil liberties.
	tiskali-portal.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0000847.html (361 words)

	United States of America: Proclamations are not enough, double standards must end. More than words needed this Human ...
		Five months after the US Supreme Court ruled that the federal courts have jurisdiction of the Guantánamo detainees – puncturing a central tenet of the administration's "war on terror" detention policy – no detainee has appeared in court, a strong indication of a government stalling and applying a less-than-progressive interpretation of the Supreme Court's decision.
		At the core of the Universal Declaration is the recognition of the "inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family [as] the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world".
		The US administration's "torture memos" which have come into the public domain since the emergence of photographs of war crimes by US soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq reveal that the administration has been far from committed to the prohibition on torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment since launching the "war on terror".
	www.amnestyusa.org /icc/document.do?id=FC8BFA95B5EB02AB80256F5D00582B35 (4362 words)

	US Declaration of Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Meeting in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776, the motion for independence was made by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia on June 7, 1776 and was seconded by John Adams of Massachusetts.
		The original, parchment Declaration of Independence, signed on and after August 2, 1776, was not always treated with the extreme care and respect that it receives today.
		The Declaration of Independence, US Constitution and Bill of Rights are displayed in glass and bronze cases in the National Archives building in Washington, DC.
	www.worldquest.com /law/declare.htm (2987 words)

	NARA \| The National Archives Experience
		Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument.
		The political philosophy of the Declaration was not new; its ideals of individual liberty had already been expressed by John Locke and the Continental philosophers.
		"The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence" by Stephen Lucas.
	www.archives.gov /national_archives_experience/charters/declaration.html (379 words)

	The Declaration of Independence -- A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest. John Winthrop (1588-1649)
		On June 11, 1776, the Congress appointed three concurrent committees in response to the Lee Resolution: one to draft a declaration of independence, a second to draw up a plan "for forming foreign alliances," and a third to "prepare and digest the form of a confederation." On July 4th the deed was signed and sealed.
		The Declaration of Independence was first printed by John Dunlop in Philadelphia on the 5th of July 1776.
		Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (26 August 1789), which claimed to be universal in application -- e.g.
	www.hightowertrail.com /4th.htm (2505 words)

	Adam Smith's Lost Legacy: Adam Smith and the US Declaration of Independence
		Adam Smith and the US Declaration of Independence
		That the sentiments of the “Declaration” and Smith’s works are of similar vintage is at least a reasonable assertion without implying conscious borrowings.
		People are asking: “Where do we go from here?”When Thomas Jefferson penned his revolutionary declaration on the inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in 1776, he borrowed heavily from another revolutionary document of that same year: Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
	adamsmithslostlegacy.com /2005/10/adam-smith-and-us-declaration-of.html (396 words)

	.US ARMY Insignia Home Page. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The US Army in the War of 1812
		The US Army in the War with Spain
		The US Army in the Liberation of Kuwait
	www.inxpress.net /~rokats/armyhome.html (136 words)

	The Declaration of Independence Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The American Declaration of Independence has been celebrated and esteemed all over the world, but few people know the history of the document's authorship.
		This Home Page's objective is to demonstrate the evolution of The Declaration of Independence and the effect of collaborative authorship on the document's creation.
		To achieve this goal, the three drafts of the Declaration are available in a standard linear form and in a hypertextual form.
	www.duke.edu /eng169s2/group1/lex3/firstpge.htm (258 words)

	US Declaration of Independence & The Bill of Rights (Morgana's Observatory)
		We hold these 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.
		He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
		We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
	www.dreamscape.com /morgana/declare.htm (2161 words)

	Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
		June 28 -- A fair copy of the committee draft of the Declaration of Independence is read in Congress.
		July 2 -- Congress declares independence as the British fleet and army arrive at New York.
		July 5 -- John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress, dispatches the first of Dunlap's broadsides of the Declaration of Independence to the legislatures of New Jersey and Delaware.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/declara/declara2.html (391 words)

	Declaration of Independence
		This site is a good resource for anyone curious about the Declaration and its history, or for the student who needs resources for his or her research paper.
		The original Declaration is now exhibited in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom in Washington, DC.
		Copyright ©1999-2005 by the Independence Hall Association, a nonprofit organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1942.
	www.ushistory.org /declaration/index.htm (396 words)

	Ben's Guide (6-8): The Declaration of Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Second Continental Congress formed a committee to write the Declaration, but the Committee thought it would be better for only one man to write the document.
		On July 2, 1776 the Congress voted to declare independence from England.
		As you read the transcription of the Declaration of Independence below, notice that the first part gives notice of the break with England and the reasons for the break.
	bensguide.gpo.gov /6-8/documents/declaration (1122 words)

	Ben's Guide (3-5): The Declaration of Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in the history of the United States.
		Although the Declaration of Independence was not officially signed until August 1, 1776, Congress voted to approve the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
		Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
	bensguide.gpo.gov /3-5/documents/declaration (1052 words)

	The Avalon Project : Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
		Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
		He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.
		He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/declare.htm (1146 words)

	CESL Customs and Culture in the US
		Most people in the US believe that the ideal person is independent and self-reliant, and most people think of themselves this way.
		People in the US do not think of themselves as representatives of their families, communities, or social class.
		In the US, a few religious groups emphasize the importance of large families, but most people think one or two children are enough, and many couples have no children.
	www.cesl.arizona.edu /custom.html (4743 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: Declaration of Independence
		He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature.
		He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
		He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/D/1776-1800/independence/doi.htm (1151 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: Declaration of Independence-draft
		The rough draft of the Declaration of Independence
		A Declaration by the Representatives of United States of America, in General Congress Assembled
		he has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their pretended acts of legislation, for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/D/1776-1800/independence/doitj.htm (1244 words)

	US Declaration of Independence
		The original handwritten Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, "by the representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress assembled," is now badly faded; cf.
		The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution rely on the ability of a group of people forming a social contract on behalf of future generations.
		That is to say, the instrument does not purport to be an agreement between any body but "the people" THEN existing; nor does it, either expressly or impliedly, assert any right, power, or disposition, on their part, to bind anybody but themselves.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /comm/steen/cogweb/Restoration/USDeclaration.html (1537 words)

	denial is not a river in egypt - Nazis and "not see's"
		Let us not allow the terrible mess they are making in Iraq to distract us from exposing their misdeeds and lies at home.
		Based on the record of Daddy Bush, in all his guises, and the general trajectory of US foreign policy as far back as the Carter Administration, I feel I can reasonably conclude that Middle Eastern and South Asian fossil fuels are one of their major preoccupations.
		With no proof to counter Vreeland's claim of being a US Navy intelligence officer, Corn dismisses the memo Vreeland said he wrote last August, while being held in a Canadian jail on charges that were subsequently dropped, and gave to his jailers for safekeeping.
	www.oilempire.us /denial.html (9133 words)

	Elections: US Declaration of Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The day of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence is now commemorated as the Fourth of July, or Independence Day.
		The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
		For a full text version of the US Declaration of Independence visit the US National Archives.
	www.learn-line.nrw.de /angebote/election/USdocs_declaration.html (326 words)

	Pocket Directory - Products for the Mobile Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Town Compass® presents the US Declaration of Independence Pocket Directory™ Database.
		Declaration of Independence, including the Preamble and full text of the Declaration
		Declaration Signers, including By Name and By State, each with Photo, State, Date of Birth, Birthplace, Occupation, and Date of Death
	www.pocketdirectory.com /software/product.aspx?idProduct=165 (96 words)

	USAvsUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		From the time of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, to the time of the Articles of Confederation there was a space of time of sixteen months and eleven days.
		U.S. citizens are 14th Amendment citizens implemented by the Civil Rights Act of 1866 originally established for the newly freed slaves.
		US citizens are at the mercy of government and the administrative courts and tribunals
	www.gemworld.com /USAvsUS.htm (8749 words)

	Capitalism Magazine: Clinton-China vs. Taiwan-America: Independence Day's Meaning Long Forgotten by Andrew West
		The core idea of the Declaration is that Men are endowed with Rights, and a government's legitimacy rests upon its function of securing these Rights, thereby gaining the consent of the governed.
		In saying this, he was, of course, implying Taiwan's formal independence from the People's Republic of China (PRC), while avoiding an official, legal statement of independence.
		A law was passed committing the US to "maintain the capacity of the US to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system of the people of Taiwan."
	www.capmag.com /articlePrint.asp?ID=238 (923 words)

	US Historical Documents
		The Declaration of Causes of seceding states (Winter 1861)
		The Declaration of War on Germany (Dec. 11, 1941)
		A Chronology of US Historical Documents was named as an Award-Winning Site for August 1996 by Education World.
	www.law.ou.edu /hist (828 words)

	U.S. Government Online Bookstore
		Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence (Pocket Edition)
		All shipments will be released as soon as transportation routes are re-established for U.S. Postal Service delivery.
		Constitution of the United States and Declaration of Independence
	bookstore.gpo.gov (152 words)

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