On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress selects Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert R. Livingston of New York to draft a declaration of independence.

Knowing Jefferson’s prowess with a pen, Adams urged him to author the first draft of the document, which was then carefully revised by Adams and Franklin before being given to Congress for review on June 28.

The revolutionary treatise began with reverberating prose:

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 are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

• 1946
• In the Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.

The Canadian Citizenship Act (French: Loi sur la citoyenneté canadienne; effective 1947–1977), S.C. 1946, c. 15, is an Act of the Parliament of Canada which properly created the concept and status of Canadian citizenship in Canada, and defined who are Canadian citizens, separate and independent from the status of the British subject (which then came to be abolished in principle by the British Nationality Act 1948). The Act was replaced on 15 February 1977 by the Canadian Citizenship Act, 1976, now known as the Citizenship Act.

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you gotta wonder why the US and Canadian feel they are the first Americans or Canadians … the Indigenous are – peiod

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Jurors shown video at Derek Chauvin’s trial in Floyd’s death https://youtu.be/kpbe0SsHWxw via @YouTube never forget… no one is above the law! he could have done the right thing but he decided to kill George with his knee… it took 9 minutes and 29seconds