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Declaration of Independence: unalienable rights

Author: Second Continental Congress Year: 1776 Length: 212 characters Difficulty: demanding Public domain

The sentence repeats the same clause shape three times, so it builds rhythm and trains the colon and the semicolon together.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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People in wide dresses and a horse carriage pass a brick hall with a clock tower, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Ferdinand Richardt, 1858.
What you just typedDeclaration of Independence: unalienable rightsSecond Continental Congress, 1776
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Congress voted for independence on 2 July 1776 and approved the wording two days later, which is why the fourth is the holiday. Thomas Jefferson wrote the draft, and Congress cut about a quarter of it before adopting the text. This sentence carries the claim the rest of the document depends on, that rights come before governments. The version here follows the first volume of the United States Statutes at Large, whose punctuation differs a little from the parchment copy.

About this text

Congress voted for independence on 2 July 1776 and approved the wording two days later, which is why the fourth is the holiday. Thomas Jefferson wrote the draft, and Congress cut about a quarter of it before adopting the text. This sentence carries the claim the rest of the document depends on, that rights come before governments. The version here follows the first volume of the United States Statutes at Large, whose punctuation differs a little from the parchment copy.

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The sentence repeats the same clause shape three times, so it builds rhythm and trains the colon and the semicolon together.

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