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Dear Un-informed Extremist Far Right Republicans
Do you know what the United States of America's Declaration of Independence , is ?
If you do not know, Google it! Or use whatever search engine that you prefer. The Declaration of Independence is so important, they keep it in a vault, for it is more precious than gold.
http://www.chronicle.com/blognetwor...independence-and-the-constitution-in-storage/
The Original Declaration of Independence: Faded and Rolled Up
You'd think that the original Declaration of Independence - the very document that founded the United States of America - would be treated with respect. Well, it is now. It is stored in special, bullet-proof encasement made of titanium with gold plated frames and filled with inert argon gas to prevent decomposition, but that wasn't the case right after it was signed (see the faded and beat up copy above).
According to historian Pauline Maier, who wrote American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, explains:
It wasn't taken care of very well in the early years. It was sort of rolled up, carried around with the Second Continental Congress. And then the State Department kept it, and if people came, they'd pull it out and show it to them. None of this, you know, enormous--What do they call it?--at the Library of Congress--argon caskets, you know, these heavy metal, glass cases that have gas in them without oxygen so that the documents don't decompose. And the Library of Congress keeps them sort of in a refrigerator. It's the most precious documents--none of that.
I mean, they just pulled it out and showed it to you, the real thing. And then they got tired of pulling it out, so they pasted it up on a wall in what was then the patent office, and there it remained for 30 years near a very bright window. It faded. And they spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out what they could do with it. Modern preservation techniques are really a quite recent development.
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/5-neat-facts-about-the-declaration-of-independence/
Please do not troll NPR.
July 4 Tradition: NPR Reads The Declaration Of Independence
July 4, 20184
Thirty years ago, Morning Edition launched what has become an Independence Day tradition: familiar NPR voices reading the Declaration of Independence.
Below is the draft of the Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress 242 years ago in Philadelphia. It is read by NPR staff members in the accompanying audio.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/04/6238...ion-npr-reads-the-declaration-of-independence
Across the nation, citizens will gather to celebrate the birth of the nation with fireworks and apple pie; and they will watch, once again, as Donald Trump supporters accuse National Public Radio of inciting a treasonous uprising against the president by tweeting out the Declaration of Independence.
by tweeting out the Declaration of Independence.
As per it’s own annual tradition, NPR last year tweeted out the Declaration of Independence line-by-line—a seemingly innocuous tribute to the nation’s founding document, which outlined the thirteen original colonies’ intention to separate from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
(Sweethearts, that is we have a President. Great Britain has not ruled over us, for a very long time. It is why we celebrate the 4th of July. People that live in the UK are sometimes shocked, about seeing how much we put into celebrating not having Royalty from another country, telling American citizens what to do.)
Defenders of the president attacked NPR for “calling for a revolution” by tweeting phrases like “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.”
https://www.alternet.org/trump-fans...-after-it-tweets-out-declaration-independence
current NPR tweets
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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.
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it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —
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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,
Do you know what the United States of America's Declaration of Independence , is ?
If you do not know, Google it! Or use whatever search engine that you prefer. The Declaration of Independence is so important, they keep it in a vault, for it is more precious than gold.
http://www.chronicle.com/blognetwor...independence-and-the-constitution-in-storage/
The Original Declaration of Independence: Faded and Rolled Up
You'd think that the original Declaration of Independence - the very document that founded the United States of America - would be treated with respect. Well, it is now. It is stored in special, bullet-proof encasement made of titanium with gold plated frames and filled with inert argon gas to prevent decomposition, but that wasn't the case right after it was signed (see the faded and beat up copy above).
According to historian Pauline Maier, who wrote American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, explains:
It wasn't taken care of very well in the early years. It was sort of rolled up, carried around with the Second Continental Congress. And then the State Department kept it, and if people came, they'd pull it out and show it to them. None of this, you know, enormous--What do they call it?--at the Library of Congress--argon caskets, you know, these heavy metal, glass cases that have gas in them without oxygen so that the documents don't decompose. And the Library of Congress keeps them sort of in a refrigerator. It's the most precious documents--none of that.
I mean, they just pulled it out and showed it to you, the real thing. And then they got tired of pulling it out, so they pasted it up on a wall in what was then the patent office, and there it remained for 30 years near a very bright window. It faded. And they spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out what they could do with it. Modern preservation techniques are really a quite recent development.
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/03/5-neat-facts-about-the-declaration-of-independence/
Please do not troll NPR.
July 4 Tradition: NPR Reads The Declaration Of Independence
July 4, 20184
Thirty years ago, Morning Edition launched what has become an Independence Day tradition: familiar NPR voices reading the Declaration of Independence.
Below is the draft of the Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress 242 years ago in Philadelphia. It is read by NPR staff members in the accompanying audio.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/04/6238...ion-npr-reads-the-declaration-of-independence
Across the nation, citizens will gather to celebrate the birth of the nation with fireworks and apple pie; and they will watch, once again, as Donald Trump supporters accuse National Public Radio of inciting a treasonous uprising against the president by tweeting out the Declaration of Independence.
by tweeting out the Declaration of Independence.
As per it’s own annual tradition, NPR last year tweeted out the Declaration of Independence line-by-line—a seemingly innocuous tribute to the nation’s founding document, which outlined the thirteen original colonies’ intention to separate from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
(Sweethearts, that is we have a President. Great Britain has not ruled over us, for a very long time. It is why we celebrate the 4th of July. People that live in the UK are sometimes shocked, about seeing how much we put into celebrating not having Royalty from another country, telling American citizens what to do.)
Defenders of the president attacked NPR for “calling for a revolution” by tweeting phrases like “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.”
https://www.alternet.org/trump-fans...-after-it-tweets-out-declaration-independence
current NPR tweets
·
17m
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.
Show this thread
NPR
NPR
@NPR
·
18m
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —
Show this thread
NPR
NPR
@NPR
·
18m
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism,
