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A New Declaration

18 August 2014By Bruce Perine

In a mere two years, it will have been 240 years since the Great Experiment that is the United States commenced. We have progressed from 13 backwater, remotely located colonies to the greatest nation the world has ever seen. We spread from ocean to ocean and were blessed with abundant raw materials that allowed us to become an industrial giant. We were envied and emulated throughout the world. We called out to the world’s tired, poor, and huddled masses desiring to breath free and they came by the millions to a land of freedom such as the world had never seen. They came to a nation that offered the opportunity to strive for whatever success they were capable of achieving. And they succeeded beyond all belief.

A lesson in civics derived from the Declaration of Independence

14 July 2014By Niki Hannevig

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Critique paragraphs 1 and 2 of the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence below and answer the following questions (scroll down below the horizontal line for some of the answers).

1. For what purpose was this document written?

2. How did the signers refer to themselves?

Our return to slavery

14 May 2014By Roy Minet

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Slavery was tolerated for the first several decades of our country’s existence. However, those opposed to this reprehensible practice eventually succeeded in outlawing it. The watershed moment was President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. But sadly, over recent decades, we are witnessing a return to the practice of slavery.Early slave owners kept slaves in order...