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Article: DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WRITTEN WITH HAMPTON ROADS EVENTS IN MIND.(PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 18, 1997
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Byline: Alan Flanders
``When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, . . . We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.''
Most American citizens are familiar with the above as the opening words of the Declaration of Independence. Written in the hot days of July, 1776 in Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson authored one of the most outstanding political statements in history. In essence he marshaled ...
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