Beezley: July 4, 1776 was one perfect moment—for liberty and for mankind
By Don Beezley | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice
After thousands of years of struggle through oppression and tyranny, there was one perfect moment in human history on a hot, summer day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: July 4, 1776. On that date the Second American Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of the thirteen United States of America–the American Declaration of Independence.
The crowning achievement of the Enlightenment in a one-page document.
The Declaration of Independence represents the one moment in history when we got it right. One perfect moment derived from a morally perfect vision. The words on that parchment may fade with time, but its immortal ideas amplify and reverberate through the annals of time:
We hold these truths to be sel...
