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What does America as an idea mean? How well do we live up to the ideal?

What does America as an idea mean? How well do we live up to the ideal?. Declaration of Independence. June 7, 1776 Richard Henry Lee

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What does America as an idea mean? How well do we live up to the ideal?

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  1. What does America as an idea mean? • How well do we live up to the ideal?

  2. Declaration of Independence June 7, 1776 Richard Henry Lee ...That these united Colonies are, and ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance from the British crown, and that all political connection between America and State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved... Committee of Five – Ben, John, TJ, Roger Sherman (CT), Robert Livingston (NY)

  3. New Jersey Constitution July 2, 1776 …And whereas George the Third, king of Great Britain, has refused protection to the good people of these colonies; and, by assenting to sundry acts of the British parliament, attempted to subject them to the absolute dominion of that body; and has also made war upon them, in the most cruel and unnatural manner, for no other cause, than asserting their just rights -- all civil authority under him is necessarily at an end, and a dissolution of government in each colony has consequently taken place…

  4. TJ’s original Dec of Ind included this grievance: He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.

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