Selasa, 06 Juni 2017

Suicide Pact: Signing the Declaration of Independence

56 men put their lives on the line by signing the Declaration of Independence. Anything but celebratory. That’s how Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania remembered the atmosphere in the Continental Congress in Philadelphia when delegates affixed their signatures to the Declaration of Independence: A “pensive and awful silence pervaded the house as we were called up, …

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