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Independence Day
By Tammy Derouin
Do we really
understand the meaning of Independence Day? Do we even care to understand
what was taking place 240 years ago and the events which led to such an
extraordinary document?
Families, friends
and countrymen must have faced a great divide. Do you remain loyal to
your oppressor; the one who provides for you but keeps you enslaved or do you
break free and live with uncertainty and the ability to forge your own path?
Freedom demands responsibility. It
is not the responsibility of the government to provide the citizens with their
daily necessities and desires.
The colonist
didn't ask for their independence or freedom; they declared it. They
declared to the world why it was necessary to break ties with Great Britain. This
was not a decision which was taken lightly. “Prudence, indeed, will
dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and
transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are
more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves
by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” The Declaration of Independence.
After declaring
their independence, they listed their grievances so the world would understand
what led them to break free. “The
history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries
and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute
Tyranny over these States. To prove
this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.” The Declaration of Independence.
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