What you DIDN'T know about July 4th,

the Declaration of Independence,

and the Founding Fathers

BY KEN JENSEN

Fourth of July is A Great

Holiday that Get's Misunderstood

Forget 4th of July How You Know it, Independence Day, Text of the Declaration of Independence, and Definition of the Declaration of Independence.

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Learn Exactly What You Need to Know

about Independence Day

I though about taking the dayoff from posting for the holiday,but in the end, I thought thatmaybe I should forget about the4th of July fireworks and givethe history and the truth aboutour Independence Day. I don'tknow of a public school that hastaught it quite like this.

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The Basics: Understanding Why the

Fourth of July is Important

The basic knowledge (I didn'tsay correct) of the 4th of Julyis that we declared therevolution against theBritish. We declared ourindependence on a piece ofparchment and got somesignatures. Everyonecelebrated and the LibertyBell got a crack from gettinghit so hard.

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The Men or The Signers of the

Declaration of Independence were

Felons!

Our patriotic founding fathersthat held strong against theKing of Britain were not thestand-up guys that we claimthat they are at least from alaw standpoint. They wereconsidered felon's by theprevailing law at thattime. They were courageous,God-fearing, and fed up!

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The Founding Fathers knew that

Government was our Biggest Threat

They hated government, made adocument against the old one, andmade a hand-written straight jacket(constitution) to run the new one,because they knew that, eventhough government is necessary toprotect their rights, that samedomestic state was the biggestthreat to citizens liberties! They putin place for the people the rightsnecessary to protect their freedomsfrom federal infringement.

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The War for Independence Was Declared, Why

was the Revolutionary War Fought, When was

the Revolutionary War

• April of 1775 - Those "traitors" declaredwar against Great Britain.• 1776 - the colonies had to start cashincentives.• They even ended up drafting in 1778.• The war wasn't just an overwhelmingamount of American's solidly against theBritish and that was that. An estimated 15-20% of American Loyalists supported thecrown, many of which fought on the side ofred. Not only that, but Natives were also inthe war.

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Why is and How Did The Liberty Bell Crack,

Where is The Liberty Bell Located

• It is believed that the bell wasintact through the war andwas probably not rang on the 4th,but may have been rang with therest of the city's other bells when theDeclaration of Independence wasread aloud.

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Paul Revere wasn't a Solo Rider

• Paul Revere wasn't a solorider, but was part of a wellthought out early warningsystem. The system waslantern based. Revere wascaught off-guard, yet he didmake it to Samuel Adams andJohn Hancock to warn themthat they would probably bearrested with a fellow rider,William Dawes.

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Author of and Who Signed The

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

(DOI)

The basic knowledge that the DOI was signed on the 4th, is a little bit ofanother error in common historic teaching. The first draft of the DOI waswritten by Thomas Jefferson. Congress actually declared ourindependence on July 2nd, 1776. By this time the DOI was still a draft onlysigned by the Congressional Leader John Hancock, and Secretary ofCongress, Charles Thompson. John Adams even wrote to his wife Abigailthat he predicted that July 2nd would be a holiday. It was read aloud inthe city on July 8th. The DOI was finally signed August 2, 1776 and wasdelivered to Great Britain that following November.

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Why was July 4th Chosen for the

Declaration of Independence?

So why the 4th? That was when congress stopped hashing out the draft that wassubmitted on the 2nd. They all finally agreed to the wording. That is the datethat was attached to the newest revision that was signed in August. And did youknow it wasn't even recognized as a national holiday until 1870... almost acentury later?

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The Founding Fathers were Traitors,

and That is Awesome

All of these dates and such are justfor accuracy, but the truth of thestory is that a bunch of guys thatwere ticked off at a governmentthat was consistently removingtheir rights as men. These mendeclared war against a tyrannicalmonarchy, and theirindependence from thesame. They gave us, in writing, allof our rights that serve to protectus from tyranny.

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You Can Be a Sentinel, You Can

Stand Up for Your Rights

• You can stand up for your rightsand the rights of others, by beingapathetic to the tyrant, and justdo what you feel you need todo. Don’t be apathetic in a wayto justify ignorance, be apatheticin a way that justifies your abilityto do what is right for you andyour family.

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