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250 years ago today: A resolution is put forth in Philadelphia that will change the world
Posted on 6/7/26 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 6/7/26 at 3:32 pm
June 7, 1776:
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250 years ago today, a man stood up in a room full of nervous delegates and said the words that made America inevitable.
Not Thomas Jefferson. Not George Washington. Not Benjamin Franklin.
A Virginia planter named Richard Henry Lee.
It was June 7, 1776. The war had already been going for over a year. Men were dying. Cities were burning. And yet the Continental Congress still had not officially declared independence from Britain.
That morning, Lee rose and read aloud a resolution he had been instructed to deliver by Virginia:
"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."
John Adams immediately seconded it.
The room erupted.
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Posted on 6/7/26 at 3:34 pm to RollTide1987
If only we remained that way.. free and independent states.
Richard Henry Lee
Richard Henry Lee 
Posted on 6/7/26 at 3:39 pm to SallysHuman
quote:It’s a nice fantasy, but we wouldn't have made it to 1812.
If only we remained that way.. free and independent states.
This post was edited on 6/7/26 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 6/7/26 at 3:45 pm to RollTide1987
Those were brave men
This post was edited on 6/7/26 at 3:46 pm
Posted on 6/7/26 at 3:49 pm to Gravitiger
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It’s a nice fantasy, but we wouldn't have made it to 1812.
No cap. United we stand!
Posted on 6/7/26 at 4:12 pm to SallysHuman
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If only we remained that way.. free and independent states.
Civil War and the Reconstruction amendments began the slow death of federalism. The "Progressive Era" Amendments (especially the 17th Amendment) killed it.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 4:14 pm to udtiger
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This post was edited on 6/7/26 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 6/7/26 at 4:18 pm to RollTide1987
That John Adams show good?
Posted on 6/7/26 at 4:18 pm to RollTide1987
Lincoln was a tyrant
Posted on 6/7/26 at 4:26 pm to HarryHoudini
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That John Adams show good?
In all honesty? The first two episodes are fantastic but the show kind of drags a little after that. There are still some great moments in each of the following episodes, but they don't come anywhere near the consistency that the first two episodes enjoyed.
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