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The Declaration’s forgotten (non)signer: John Dickinson’s missing 1776 signature haunts his legacy
NEW YORK (AP) — For a quarter century, Jane Calvert has been on a mission shared by few scholars of the Revolutionary War era. She has championed a founder mostly remembered, when remembered at all, as the man who wouldn’t sign the Declaration of Independence — the lawyer and statesman John Dickinson. “It has been [] The post The Declaration’s forgotten (non)signer: John Dickinson’s missing 1776 signature haunts his legacy appeared first on Loonie Politics.
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· Jul 3, 2026
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We will celebrate the Declaration of Independence tomorrow in our accustomed style, quoting Abraham Lincoln and Calvin Coolidge. Implicit in the tributes of Lincoln and Coolidge to the Declaration is an expression of gratitude — for our liberty — to the men who pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to win it. To express our gratitude properly, we need to bring them to mind, recall their names,
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'America 250' (4/13). Fifty years to the day after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, two of its architects died: the enigmatic Thomas Jefferson and the impulsive John Adams. This coincidence only strengthened, among the population, the sense of an unprecedented destiny promised to their nation.
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· Jul 5, 2026
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The Declaration of Independence, signed and issued to the public 250 years ago this month, was the banner under which the American Revolution was fought. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. The Declaration, the sheet anchor of American republicanism, as Lincoln called it, stated the ideals behind the revolution, but played little role either in starting or ending the conflict. The battles of Lexington and Concord, which ignited the war, had been fought more than a year earlier, in April 1775; the war would continue for another five years until it was settled in 1781 by the American victory at Yorktown. Without victory in the war for independence, the Declaration of Independence might have been relegated to a footnote in history. The post The Indispensable President appeared first on .
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· Jul 2, 2026
Rep. Mark Harris: The Faith That Made America Free
As America approaches her 250th birthday, we will look back to Philadelphia; to the signing of the Declaration of Independence; and to the courage of the men who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the cause of liberty. The declaration was not written merely in rejection of England’s rule. It was...
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