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Post by avordvet on Jul 4, 2012 5:36:26 GMT -5
Signers of Declaration of Independence Paid the Price of Freedom With Personal and Financial SacrificeBy Penny Starr, July 3, 2012 (CNSNews.com) - Two-hundred-and-thirty-six years after members of the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence, Americans will celebrate the nation's birth on July 4 with barbecues and fireworks.
But the document that declared independence for the 13 American colonies from the tyranny of England’s King George III, signed by 56 men, was considered an act a treason by the crown and punishable by hanging. And the price for securing freedom for the newly minted republic required personal and financial sacrifice.
"For their dedication to the cause of independence, the signers risked loss of fortune, imprisonment, and death for treason,"cnsnews.com/news/article/signers-declaration-independence-paid-price-freedom-personal-and-financial-sacrifice
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Post by hefferman1 on Jul 4, 2012 8:27:07 GMT -5
If you believe in individual liberty like the men who signed that great document in iron ink did, then today you are a extreme right wing threat.
If believing in freedom makes you a threat, then I like them am a threat and will be proud to be considered even a pale shadow of such men.
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