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The Declaration of Independence: A Study In The History of Political Ideas
The Declaration of Independence: A Study In The History of Political Ideas
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The Declaration of Independence A Study In The History of Political Ideas By Carl Becker
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
IT is often forgotten that the document which we know as the Declaration of Independence is not the official act by which the Continental
Congress voted in favor of separation from Great
Britain. June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, on behalf of the Virginia delegation, submitted to the Continental Congress three resolutions, of which the first declared that "these United
Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."