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The amazing maturity of the young Declaration signers.

Posted: Jul 4, 2017

George Walton (Georgia), John Penn (North Carolina), and Samuel Chase (Maryland) were 35. Arthur Middleton (South Carolina), James Wilson (Pennsylvania), and William Hooper (North Carolina) were 34. Thomas Jefferson (Virginia) and Thomas Stone (Maryland) were 33. Elbridge Gerry (Massachusetts) was 32. Benjamin Rush (Pennsylvania) was 31. Thomas Heyward Jr. (South Carolina) was 30. Thomas Lynch Jr. (South Carolina) was 27. And Edward Rutledge (South Carolina) was a mere 26 years old! Perhaps even more remarkable than the young ages of these signers is the young age at which many of them began what we today consider “adult life.” A number of signers entered prestigious colleges such as Harvard between the ages of 13 and 16, including John Hancock, Samuel Adams, William Ellery, Robert Treat Pain, and Elbridge Gerry. Still others, such as George Ross, John Penn, Benjamin Rush, and William Whipple, were already beginning their careers as businessmen, lawyers, and doctors by the time many modern young people are just finishing their undergrad years.;

They had a lot to lose, including their families. No pajama - boys in that bunch.

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Many of the 56 signers sacrificed their prosperity for - posterity. Of the Signers:

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11 had their homes destroyed;
5 were hunted and captured;
17 served in the military; and
9 died during the war.

More Americans died on British starving ships than died in battle during the Revolution.

The Declaration referred to God:

"Laws of Nature and of NATURE'S GOD...

All Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable Rights ...

Appealing to the SUPREME JUDGE OF THE WORLD for the rectitude of our intentions ..."

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of DIVINE PROVIDENCE, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."

This was revolutionary, as kings claimed "the divine right of kings," namely, that the Creator gives rights to the king, who dispenses them as his discretion to his subjects.

The American Declaration by passes the King, declaring that the Creator gives rights directly to "all men."

American Minute

I once had the privledge of - sm

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seeing one of the signed copies in a museum. I remember thinking of the danger these men put themselves in and their incredible courage, laying it all on the line. Just standing there reading it and looking at the signatures and understanding what they truly meant, not just a name on a page, made me feel very small and so thankful for their insight and courage.

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Seth Kaper-Dale could have been Gov. Of NJ...instead Christie...lol..

Seth Kaper-Dale

"This week, we’re commemorating 241 years since the 13 colonies ratified the Declaration of Independence, precipitating the war to end colonial rule by England. The Declaration’s famed preamble asserts that, “…all men are created equal...” But 241 years of reality don’t concur.
Most of the white male landowners who signed the Declaration of Independence, and their descendants, owned slaves for many ensuing decades. When slavery ended, what happened to the promised “40-acres and a mule?”
Only a few years before I was born, the Civil Rights Movement attained the right to vote for non-whites as a result of a long hard struggle, bringing the promise of equality a tiny bit closer, or so it seemed.
However, in 2017, racism and sexism are alive and well. In NJ, for every white person in jail there are 12 black people. How can that be in a state where roughly 59% of the population is white?

It is not just the criminal justice system’s targeting of minorities that is truly criminal. All of our children should receive the same quality education in our public schools, but they don’t. All people should receive the same pay for the same work, but women in NJ receive less than 70 cents to the male dollar.
Last week, I had the honor of meeting a talented African American professor, Lisa Durden. Earlier in June, she was subjected to the rabid attacks of a Fox “News” commentator, who labeled her as racist for defending the right of Black Lives Matter to have a commemoration of black victims to which white people were not invited. It was Fox; Ms. Durden surely knew she was walking into the lion’s den. I saw the interview – I thought she was great.
So, she must have been shocked two days later; Essex County College summarily suspended her, and then subsequently fired her from her Adjunct Professor job, with no due process, for honestly expressing her expert opinion in an interview. Ms. Durden has described it as a modern day "lynching.” There is no place for this in NJ, and even less so at a public institution of higher learning.
What is the example Essex County College is sending to its student population, and the surrounding community in Newark? If something is controversial, they should “just sit down and shut up?” This is not the New Jersey I imagined raising my kids in when I started my family here. Local and state elected officials are largely complicit through their silence, but not me.
Join me in standing with Lisa Durden, ECC students, faculty and a host of organizations calling for her reinstatement, in a protest at the Essex County Board of Freeholder’s meeting, Thursday July 6, at 7 p.m. at Livingston Town Hall, 10 N. Livingston Ave., Livingston.
I look forward to seeing you there."

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