Upon the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the dissolution of the ties of allegiance, the assumption of sovereign power, and the institution of civil government, are all acts of transcendent authority, which the people alone are competent to perform; and, accordingly, it is in the name and by the authority of the people, that two of these acts--the dissolution of allegiance, with the severance from the British Empire, and the declaration of the United Colonies, as free and independent States--were performed by that instrument.
On the contrary, that same assembly which issued the Declaration of Independence, instead of continuing to act in the name and by the authority of the good people of the United States, had, immediately after the appointment of the committee to prepare the Declaration, appointed another committee, of one member from each colony, to prepare and digest the form of confederation to be entered into between the colonies.
That committee reported on the twelfth of July, eight days after the Declaration of Independence had been issued, a draft of articles of confederation between the colonies.
They say the fathers, in 1776, signed the
Declaration of Independence with the halter about their necks.
Hancock, the first signer of the
Declaration of Independence, served his apprenticeship with a merchant.
All of a sudden he heaves all the tea in Boston Harbor overboard, and whacks out a
declaration of independence, and dares them to come on.
No state in South America, since the
declaration of independence, has suffered more from anarchy than Peru.
It was matured and continued by the
Declaration of Independence in 1776.
In America, as everyone knows, girls early sign the
declaration of independence, and enjoy their freedom with republican zest, but the young matrons usually abdicate with the first heir to the throne and go into a seclusion almost as close as a French nunnery, though by no means as quiet.
Alike in its origin, its development, and its highest point of efficiency and expansion, the telephone is as essentially American as the
Declaration of Independence or the monument on Bunker Hill.
Razumov's
declaration of independence. The question was not menacing in the least and, indeed, had the ring of innocent inquiry.
George stood out in fair sight, on the top of the rock, as he made his
declaration of independence; the glow of dawn gave a flush to his swarthy cheek, and bitter indignation and despair gave fire to his dark eye; and, as if appealing from man to the justice of God, he raised his hand to heaven as he spoke.