The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Congress, incorporates in its final paragraph the resolution of July 2; and so the Declaration may be said to be a declaration of independence, inas much as in it Congress once more declared what it had already declared two days before. Never theless, the primary purpose of the Declaration was not to declare independence, but to pro 1 claim to the world the reasons for declaring independence. It was as a formal' é justification o qqmplished.

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