Lonecowboy
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Two hundred and thirty-three years ago today, a small band of men put their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor on the line against the most powerful nation on earth.
In no uncertain terms, they sent notice that thirteen colonies would be exiting the British Empire and forming their own nation.
Reportedly, British officials strongly disagreed with their decision.
A long struggle ensued that tested the mettle of those who courageously believed there were limits to government's power. Limits as inherent as the rights with which they had been created.
For if the rights of men were nothing more than "privileges" mercifully bestowed by an all-wise government, then these men would have returned to their homes, subdued their passions, and hoped for a change in Parliament next election.
Instead, this small band made the bold claim that not only were all men created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights, but that these rights were "self-evident." What the rest of the world called revolutionary, was, to these men, just a restating of what should have been obvious.
Rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Rights worth fighting for.
What had been agreed to with a fast stroke of a quill would, for several years, be tested by bullets, starvation, exhaustion, and a disconcertingly constant threat of hanging.
Finding their strength in Divine Providence, the deepness of their convictions, and the power of their ideas, they endured all these challenges and many more to create a nation unlike any other before seen in history.
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