declaration

On June 7th 1776, the "Lee Resolution" that was proposed by Richard Henry Lee and read as follows "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." Discussion was deferred until July 1st.

On June 11th A committee of Five were appointed to draft a declaration document

ON July 1st Discussion on the Lee Resolution was joined.

On July 2nd 1776 the continental congress voted in parliamentary unanimity (New York Abstained) to declare our independence from the British empire.

On July 4th the final Draft of the Declaration of Independence was approved.

By August 2nd, 56 men of wealth and position declared themselves as insurrectionist and treason against the Crown. Printed broadsides were posted throughout the States.

Most of us have read the first few lines of this document that defined our desire for freedom. How many have rad the whole thing?