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| Thomas Jefferson, Author, signer and representative from Virginia |
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| United States |
| Reference |
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, 4 Jul 1776
U.S. National Archives, includes transcript, downloadable high-resolution images and facts about the signers |
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The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America
Hyperlinked text with references to other areas of the Freedom Circle directory |
| Events |
| 4 Jul 1776, Second Continental Congress, adopted, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Articles |
Autobiography 1743 -- 1790 With the Declaration of Independence, by Thomas Jefferson, 6 Jan 1821
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library |
Independence Day Address in Kansas City, MO, by Andre V. Marrou, 4 Jul 1992
"The ideals of the Declaration ... were to be betrayed repeatedly. ... Throughout history great civilizations have declined and ultimately died because of three factors: excessive taxation, debasement of the currency and the stationing of troops in many foreign countries. The United States of America has done, or is doing, all three." |
| The Declaration of Independence: A History, National Archives |
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| The Declaration of Independence in American, by Henry Louis Mencken, 7 Nov 1921 |
A House Undivided Cannot Stand, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, 3 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Founding Fathers, Abraham Lincoln, Serbia
"The Declaration of Independence declares that the free and independent states were even to have the ability, as individual states, to wage war, which they did during the Revolution. James Madison is given most of the credit for the idea of divided sovereignty, which is sometimes referred to as federalism or states' rights." |
Libertarians of Will, Intellect, and Action, by Murray N. Rothbard, 1977
Related Topics: Libertarianism, American Revolutionary War, Libertarian Party, Thomas Paine, The State
Keynote address to the Libertarian Party Convention
"For as noble, as exciting, as profoundly libertarian as the Declaration was, it was still the necessary but not sufficient first step in the victory of what we have correctly identified as the First Libertarian Revolution. The Declaration was the rhetoric, the ideology, that set the stage ..." |
Would-Be Rulers without Clothes, by Sheldon Richman, Freedom Daily, May 2008
Related Topics: Politics, Claude Frederic Bastiat, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Thomas Jefferson, John Locke
Examines Hillary Clinton's assertion about "wanting" a universal health care plan
"It's what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote, 'All men are created equal' in the Declaration of Independence. He certainly did not mean that people are equal in intelligence, talent, energy, ambition, physical strength, and so on. And he couldn't have meant that they should merely be equal before the law, because that would be a low bar indeed; we can imagine a society in which the law treats everyone rather poorly but nonetheless equally. ..." |
| Cartoons |
| Signing Statement, by Tom Toles, The Washington Post, 29 Jun 2006 |
| Writing Today's Declaration of Dependence, by Chuck Asay, 29 Oct 2004 |
| Books |
Individual Rights Reconsidered: Are the Truths of the U.S. Declaration of Independence Lasting?
by Tibor R. Machan (Editor), 2001 |
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