American Liberty’s 250th: ‘A Republic, if You Can Keep It’, by Mark Alexander
By Mark Alexander, Patriot Post – … how (can) I honor this Independence Day in one column?… I decided to focus only on what is most significant — our Declaration of Independence and the Founders tasked with affirming the Rights of Man — and then close with some perspective on where we are now, 250 years later… It was on June 11, 1776, during the Second Continental Congress, comprising delegations from the 13 sovereign states, convened in Philadelphia, that a Committee of Five was appointed to draft what would become our Declaration of Independence — a document that was, and remains, the most consequential political declaration in the history of the world.