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We the People - when every American here’s that phrase, they know it comes from the Constitution. I pledge allgiance to the flag - come on, I’m sure you all know the Pledge of Allegance. O say! can you see - obviously, this one’s from the Star Spangled Banner. Now, I’m gonna put a really tough one out there. Let’s see if you got it right.

“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.”

Did you get it? Let’s check. This quote is indeed the beginning of the Declaration of Independence. It does not start out with “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 is the second paragraph. Why is it that everyone is taught otherwise?

Very few people know the real beginning of the Declaration of Independence, and due to this, most people don’t really know why the United States exist today. The United States was formed to be a nation that was separate from the crown of Britain. That’s it - the second paragraph is not the real reason that the U.S. was founded. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are excellent, vague, Obama-esque things that truly have nothing to do with America’s beginnings. The United States was established because the people living here needed to live the way that was best for them, not the way that was best for the King. But how did they manage to do that?

I’ll tell you next week.

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