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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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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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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They *literally* called themselves United States even prior to the Articles of Confederation.pic.twitter.com/o8dBZhhcSA
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