Challenges and aspirations

The Continental Congress declared the separation of the American colonies from British rule on July 2, 1776. The declaration was formally approved on that day. Many thought this would forever be a special day.

Two days later the official declaration was presented. It is the one we know.

The beginning of this document is famous:

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 en...