Skjellyfetti wrote:JohnStOnge wrote:Gentlemen:
What holiday do we consider be be a celebration of the birth of the United States? During what year did we celebrate the United States bicentennial? I just did a Google search on "Birthday of the United States." Here is what came up at the top of the page:
Now, let's see...what document was signed on July 4, 1776?
And it wasn't just a "Dear John letter." It included a statement of the broad principles underlying the foundation of the nation we now know as the United States.
Depends if life of a nation begins at conception or Constitution.
JSO:
The Declaration of Independence is the following:
1) a list of grievances that the colonies had with Great Britain. This was our case for independence
2) A document that severed our political connections/relationship with Great Britain
Signing that document, we were able to recognized as a country by countries like France. Nobody on here disputes that it's a founding document and that July 4, 1776 is our RECOGNIZED birthday. But it's not a document used to govern this country. That would be the Constitution. You know, that's the one with LAWS. Point to one law in the Declaration.








