THE REASON WE THE PEOPLE CELEBRATE THIS 4TH OF JULY–THE US CONSTITUTION

 

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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. 

With the signing of the Declaration of Independence, representatives of the Thirteen Colonies in North America announced the formal separation of those colonies from Great Britain and the creation of the autonomous United States of America. The text was drafted by Thomas Jefferson and revised by Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson, before it was put before the Second Continental Congress of Philadelphia, where it was changed again. The final draft was adopted on July 4, 1776.

Action of Second Continental Congress, July 4, 1776
The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation. ……….

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