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Unfortunately we don’t have “Recorded or Video” history, but we do have bits and pieces of written documentation. Thank you Tara Ross for all of your research and writing to inform and educate all of here. God Bless you and thanks to your family for time away from them for what you do. Happy 365 days a year that we have our freedoms that God gave us in this United States of America!!!

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America has such an interesting history! Little by little it grew and improved, but it all started with a good foundation set up by god men with integrity. Happy July 2nd, Tara, and all American patriots.

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If we only had the audio recordings....That is a joke folks. Happy 2nd of July.

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This is the greatest epic in the history of the world. I wish there was a time tunnel that someone could go back to 1776 and observe these proceedings! I for one would have loved that. Imagine, witnessing voting for independence??

Those men had a lot of courage and perseverance. God Bless them their wisdom created one of the best system of government. It is up to every citizen of this country to preserve, protect and defend it.

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Happy Second of July! Hmmm…. IDK. Just doesn’t seem to roll off the tongue as easily as Happy Fourth of July! All Americans should celebrate the 4th as their day of Independence‼️

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Happy 2nd of July!

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I love this story of our nation's birth! We are forever in debt to these men who risked all to make our nation a sovereign part of the nations of the world. We were all a bunch of hotheads, or so it was thought. Those were proved wrong as our nascent country struggled into fully free existence. Happy birthday, U.S.A.!!!

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I find it interesting that these men had a concern for the way that the Declaration would be perceived in presentation and tenor. Words matter and the presentation of the words can inspire and motivate. Regardless of which story is factual, each person saw the need to have each one’s gift contributed to one of the most important documents in our country’s history.

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The Constitutional Convention was a complex and very inclusive event in the history of our nation! Some attendees were for separation from England while other attendees were willing to further negotiate with the English tyrants!

Jefferson wrote a brilliant document that describe what we were going to do and why we were separating from England!

Adams had much to do with the choice of Jefferson as the author of our Declaration of Independence and Adams did select the best candidate for that writing!

The founding of our great nation needs to be told over and over again to the young people of our nation!

Thank you, Tara, for giving us this story to tell over and over again!

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Happy 2nd, er 4th of July everyone. Either way, we declared independence and then fought for our freedom. God bless our founders and all who have served in the protection of this great nation. Thank you Tara.

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Happy Independence Day!

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I love the insights you bring to history, Tara! Although the memories of Adams and Jefferson differed in detail, Jefferson most certainly wrote this amazing historical document! It is still important and relevant today!

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Adams described himself as unliked and mistrusted. I doubt that: he was appointed to the committee of 2. His story is charming, which puts the lie to the idea he was uncharming and unlikable. I would suspect the committee chose these two as northern and southern colonies' voices, to ensure interests were included (the edits over slavery that came later might show some of that -- and yet, the words provoking most controversy came from the "southern" writer!). They also picked a lawyer (who defended British soldiers, and largely won) and a scholar adept at writing (who would likely write it just because he'd been writing so much anyway) and who had also studied law under Wythe. So some of the writing should include language of common law, evidence, claims and grievances, etc, which it did. The phrases and arguments included many of Jefferson's favorites... still relatively fresh from his studies. So the question of picking out what inclusions might have come from conversations Adams and Jeffersion actually had (rather than Adams's humorous tale) looks like it would be hard to pick out. Thing is, taxes, the march to confiscate weapons, the tea party, etc, were echoed in both the north and the south; there wasn't a lot to distinguish between them in terms of grievances that might prove Adams's advice in the included topics or phrases. That's frustrating because the document itself is likely the largest piece of evidence (including drafts) of conversations that are available.

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I did know that July 2 was the date 😉 thanks to you Tara! 🇺🇸 Your posts inspired me to start my Statue Page and blog series about the subjects of statues in the National Statuary Hall Collection. Actually both Livingston & Roger Sherman are subjects of statues in that collection hope you don’t mind me adding the links to those posts 🤓

https://open.substack.com/pub/dianaerbio/p/statues-the-people-they-salute-b26?r=ourzx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Thank you, Tara.

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