The point & legal effect of the Declaration of Independence, enacted by the Congress, was to renounce colonial status & *declare* that the colonies were now an *independent* nation. U.S. law to this very day defines July 4, 1776 as the date of our founding as a new nation. https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1403810976139522053 …
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Now, it required 2 more years before other nations recognized us & 5 more years of war after that for Britain to accept our independence. But you really have to distort American history to deny that the Declaration of Independence was the signal event of founding a new nation.
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I suppose one could quibble that the U.S. did not adopt a constitution until the Articles of Confederation, but de facto, the 13 colonies were a single entity whose Continental Congress financed & commanded a national army without one.
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