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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It's certainly not like constitutions were mandatory for states to exist in the late 18th century. Several powerful ones had no constitution whatsoever, much less a formal written one.
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Almost nobody had one then.
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They *literally* called themselves United States even prior to the Articles of Confederation.pic.twitter.com/o8dBZhhcSA
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If they don’t think the Declaration created the United States then they believe in Imperialism
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Baseball Dilbert has big brain opinions on history, wow let me pull over the car and read them carefully
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