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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died today

by YankeeJim | July 4, 2010 at 01:05 pm

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You probably knew that, but not everyone does. They both died on July 4th in 1826.

What are they doing in Great Britain today? Is it big loser day, or wish we could have been there too?

No, we’re joined at the hip pretty much. We keep acting like socialists though I don’t think that will last much longer. We need to get on with the business of producing products, not consuming them, and having the Federal Reserve print more money.

“4th of July: Facts about the Declaration of Independence

On July 2 the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from Great Britain and on 4th of July 1776 the same Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. The Founding Fathers signed the document in August, after it was finished.

In one draft of the original Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was condemning the slavery, stating that any man who has captured and imprisoned persons who never did anything wrong, violating that person’s right of life and liberty has waged a cruel war against human nature itself. Still, Jefferson was himself a slaveholder that’s why The Continental Congress deleted the slavery section from the final Declaration of Independence.”

Source: http://www.providingnews.com/4th-of-july-facts-about-the-declaration-of-independence.html#ixzz0skXGUjmH