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His new book is declaring independence why 1776 matters.

We need more than a split screen, Ed.

We need like 250 boxes here to tell the story simultaneously.

They didn't have the internet, but the Tompoms work. Good heavens. They got information crashing up and down.

We need to go to the Virginia meeting, the Virginia Convention, because it is in May, I I believe April and May of that year.

It is creating language. George Mason is the author of important language that reflects their

ambition for independency but he's also aware that all the colonies are not on board with this. How did he

shape it at? Well, George Mason was a brilliant, wig-minded, well-read. He was a, I guess you'd call him

a libertarian. He'd grown to distrust government. His plantation is right next to George Washington's

Mount Vernon. And the two of them had been close friends. Indeed, together, they'd written the

Fairfax resolutions, which were one of the early documents in the movement toward, during the

Stam back crisis and beyond, claiming the rights of British subjects.

They, you see it in, of course, Jefferson's Declaration of Rights, which he wrote in 1774,

and they're talking about maintaining their rights.

Now, these are really rich people.

These are people whose ancestors had come over to the colonies

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