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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jun 12

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      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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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jun 12

      The United States Code traditionally incorporated the Declaration as part of our organic law. It had legal effect. https://www.loc.gov/item/uscode1934-001000007/ … The State Department has long taken the position that the Declaration created the U.S. as a sovereign nation https://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/declaration …

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jun 12

      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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        1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Jun 12

          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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        2. Seamus ÓMurchu‏ @Omurchu64 Jun 12
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          So, nothing happened before 1776 that needs to be mentioned.

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        3. Right of Left‏ @RightOfLeft_TX Jun 12
          Replying to @Omurchu64 @baseballcrank

          Yeah. We were part of Britain.

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        1. Neil Stevens‏ @presjpolk Jun 12
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          The Brits thought it meaningful enough to target the signers.

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        1. Sean R O'Connor‏ @seanroconnor Jun 12
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          "all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is...totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts

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