When Was Declaration Of Independence Signed?

[zsq987]

One of the most widely held misconceptions about the Declaration of Independence is that
it was signed on July 4, 1776. In fact, independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776,
a date that John Adams believed would be “the most memorable epocha in the history of America.”
On July 4, 1776, Congress approved the final text of the Declaration. It wasn’t signed until
August 2, 1776, nearly a month after its adoption. Although August 2, 1776, was the date of the
official signing ceremony, there were several people who signed on later dates.

http://historicalportal.com/the-signing-of-the-declaration-of-independence-8-2-1776

[D2D]

I find it sad and shocking that today the Fourth of July Democrats are advocating for monarchy and an elitist one Democrat party state that desperately cleaves to foreign powers against the American people, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights!

Democrats continue to call for the disenfranchisement of more than half of the American population placing it in servitude of foreigners!

Democrats have effectively renounced their citizenship!

[warrenpees]

NLC has effectively renounced his fucking mind!

[Truman62]

Maybe they had trouble getting back to sign it because of the airports?
Did they have to take more airports from the British like Trump said?
Or was the rocket's red glare too bright for them?

You can go ahead and put Trump in this group that knows nothing.
His speech yesterday PROVES he is a very mixed up and ignorant guy.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-revolutionary-war-airports-twitter-reax-052650818.html

[D2D]

Notice not a single Democrat attempted to refute a word I posted!

[1965hawks]

ww11191v10mhzsq987 amd d2dvd!,

   You're avoiding the issue. The issue on this message board, and in this forum, has not been the date on which the Declaration of Independence was signed. it has been the fact that your demagogic and self-aggrandising Dear Leader trump hijacked this year's Independence Day celebration and transformed it  into a shameful and thinly disguised militaristic and bellicose campaign rally, presented under the guise of a "Salute to America Amerika."

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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the
earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty
and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any
Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long
established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable
than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a
design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present
King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this,
let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended,
he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature,
a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them
into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People
at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their
migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

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For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render
it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty
& Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to
fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare,
is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince,
whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction
over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them
by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of
justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War,
in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our
intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, 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; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish
Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection
of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:

Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

Sadly, Democrats are desperate to impose the same system we declared our independence of!

[WWV10MHZ]

1965BabyKiller.......  The thread is about WHEN the DOI was ACTUALLY signed, NOT when we celebrate the signing!!!!!

DUH!!!  Why are you SOOOO dense? ? ? ? ?

[1965hawks]

ww11191v10mhzsq987,

   Your asking on which date the Declaration of Independence was signed avoids the issue. At issue is your Dear Leader trump's defilement of the day that commemorates the signing of that document.

[Truman62]

Trump is the one who is the problem:

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Congress to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained;
and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in
the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has refused for a long time, to admit Russian interference in our elections which caused others to be elected, whereby the Federal State remaining in
the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the counting of the population of the States; and is obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass
others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for restricting the powers of the Executive.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and secretly threatens them with expulsion.

He has abolished a multitude of Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to quit and retire leaving the federal state in the hands of amateurs.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies and forced them to parade around like we are in some sort of Banana Republic.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to
Putin's Acts:

For spewing large numbers of lies about and among us:

For refusing to admit he is lying or obstructing justice:

For destroying our Trade with all parts of the world:

For severely cutting Tax Revenue so we are dependent on over $1 Trillion of foreign aid every year:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of health care:

For withdrawing from foreign treaties without any thought to the consequences of such actions.

[1965hawks]

davik62,

Thanks for using Jefferson's words to expose the tyranny of ww11191v10mhzsq987's Dear Leader trump.