Last Friday, America commemorated the 249th anniversary of an immensely historic act on July 4, 1776, by its fledgling Second Continental Congress declaring independence from subordination to tyrannical taxation without representation dictates of Britain’s reigning monarch, King George III.
The event occurred after tensions over the Stamp Act, Townshend Act and Tea Act had exploded in April 1775 in fierce battles with British forces in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, which commenced the American Revolutionary War.
In addition to establishing sovereignty from foreign control based upon natural rights, the Declaration of Independence enunciates another bedrock principle that guarantees American citizens freedom from domestic government tyranny as well.
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