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Página 12 - July 4, 1776, in the handwriting of Thomas Jefferson, and with the big signature of John Hancock attached. This event is a fact of great significance in the life of our people, but in what does its significance really consist ? Is it found in any or all of the incidents named ? Many of these, however interesting, seem matters of accident. Could not the Declaration have been made in Carpenters...
Página 13 - Could not all of these happenings have been different, and yet the whole of our history have been, in the main, what it has been? But there is a something here without which the superstructure of our institutional life would be entirely different. This vital thing is the thought expressed in the Declaration, — the political doctrines of the American people, then and now, which it sets forth. This is the historical content of the event and the document we call the Declaration of Independence; this...
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