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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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As in the United States, where the signing of the Declaration of Independence signaled the start of the American Revolution in 1776, in France the storming of the Bastille in 1789 began the Great Revolution.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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Most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Masons, and they received substantial aid from European Masonic lodges.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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His ideas were put into practice when on july 4, 1776 Thomas Jefferson read the Declaration of Independence in which the United States justified their rejection of the British rule based on the perception of some self evident truths: "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.
It is a doctrine of English common law that you could not sue the king, a common law inherited by the United States upon our Declaration of Independence in 1776, and abandoned, in most part, by the Government of the United States, by the governments of varying States, and through them by local governments all across the United States.
Our 1776 Declaration of Independence speaks of unalienable rights among which are the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Some historians estimate that by 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed, one-sixth of the population of the American colonies was of Ulster origin.
The Declaration of Independence was made in 1776 by the 13 English colonies in North America breaking away from all allegiance to the British Crown.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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The declaration of American independence on 4 July 1776, the end of the war with the surrender by British forces in 1782, and the defeat which the loss of the American colonies represented, could have threatened the Hanoverian throne.
The Declaration Of Independence Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument.
Second Continental Congress - It met in 1776 and drafted and signed the Declaration of Independence, which justified the Revolutionary War and declared that the colonies should be independent of Britain.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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It is no accident that the governance of the Episcopal Church followed that of the United States Government since two-thirds of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, as well as George Washington, were committed Anglican churchmen.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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By 1776, however, the Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the newly-established State of Maryland had deprived Anglican churches of their tax support.
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