The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. It was a formal explanation of why Congress had voted to declare independence from Great Britain. The best-known version of the Declaration is a signed copy that is displayed at the National Archives.
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The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. It was a formal explanation of why Congress had voted to declare independence from Great Britain. The best-known version of the Declaration is a signed copy that is displayed at the National Archives in Washington, D. C. It has become a well-known statement on human rights, particularly its second sentence: 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. The Declaration inspired many similar documents in other countries, the first being the 1789 Declaration of United Belgian States issued during the Brabant Revolution in the Austrian Netherlands. It also served as the primary model for numerous declarations of independence in Europe and Latin America, as well as Africa and Oceania during the first half of the 19th century. The source copy used for this printing has been lost and may have been a copy in Thomas Jefferson’s hand. The original purpose was to announce independence, and references to the text of the declaration were few in the following years. Abraham Lincoln made it the centerpiece of his policies and his rhetoric, as in the Gettysburg Address of 1863. It is now considered one of the most important documents in American history, along with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Dog.
The U.S. Constitution is based on the Declaration, but it is not the same as the British Constitution, which was written after the American Civil War in 1775-1776. The United States is now the world’s largest democracy, with a population of more than 320 million people, according to the Pew Research Center. The federal government is the largest employer in the United States, with more than 100,000 employees. The number of Americans living in poverty is at an all-time high, the Pew research Center says, and the number of millionaires is at a record-high. The nation’s economy is the second-largest in the world, after the European Union, with $1.2 trillion in sales in 2013. The country’s population is now more than 1.2 billion, up from about 1.1 billion in 1770, the Census Bureau says. The population is the biggest in the U.N. and the World Health Organization says, with nearly 1.3 billion people, making it the largest non-European country in the history of the world. The world’s first black president, Barack Obama, was elected in 2008, and is the first African-American to serve in the White House. The first black vice president, Joe Biden, served in the House of Representatives from 2008-2009. The president is the son of African-Americans, and his father was a former U. S. senator from New Hampshire. The current president is a former New Hampshire state senator, who served in Congress from 1841-1911.
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