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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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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So, nothing happened before 1776 that needs to be mentioned.
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Yeah. We were part of Britain.
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The Brits thought it meaningful enough to target the signers.
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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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