You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Hello and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

Today episode 100 the Declaration of Independence.

Over the last two weeks, I've discussed the vote for independence and the creation and distribution of the declaration itself. This really is the key

document of the American Revolution and one that fundamentally changed the world.

So I'm devoting this third week to this important topic.

This week I want to go through the declaration line by line and explain the significance of each part.

With that, let's begin.

In Congress, July 4th, 1776, the unanimous declaration of the 13 United States of America.

The date of July 4th United States of America.

The date of July 4th, on the top of the document, is the date Congress approved the final

wording of the declaration, although Congress added the very next line calling it unanimous a couple of weeks

after that date after the New York delegation changed its vote, reflecting the fact

that all 13 colonies now supported the declaration.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political

bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among

the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of

nature's God entitle them.

A decent respect to the opinions of mankind

requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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 rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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