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  2. United States Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia

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    The word "unanimous" was inserted as a result of a Congressional resolution passed on July 19, 1776: "Resolved, That the Declaration passed on the 4th, be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and stile of 'The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America,' and that the same, when engrossed, be signed by every member ...

  3. Signing of the United States Declaration of Independence

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    The date that the Declaration was signed has long been the subject of debate. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams all wrote that it was signed by Congress on the day when it was adopted on July 4, 1776. [1] That assertion is seemingly confirmed by the signed copy of the Declaration, which is dated July 4.

  4. Emancipation Proclamation - Wikipedia

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    Publication date: 1 January 1863: ... so Lincoln gave them the means and motivation to do both, ... I would crown the result by the declaration of freedom to the ...

  5. American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The American Declaration of Independence influenced the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789. [239] [240] The spirit of the Declaration of Independence led to laws ending slavery in all the Northern states and the Northwest Territory, with New Jersey the last in 1804. States such as New Jersey and New York adopted ...

  6. United States Bicentennial - Wikipedia

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    On December 31, 1975, the eve of the Bicentennial Year, Ford recorded a statement to address the American people by means of radio and television broadcasts. [22] Presidential Proclamation 4411 was signed as an affirmation to the Founding Fathers of the United States principles of dignity, equality, government by representation, and liberty. [23]

  7. Balfour Declaration - Wikipedia

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    [171] While in Germany, officials and most of the press took the Declaration to mean a British sponsored state for the Jews. [171] The British government, including Churchill, made it clear that the Declaration did not intend for the whole of Palestine to be converted into a Jewish National Home, "but that such a Home should be founded in ...

  8. Election schedule of the 2024 Indian general election - Wikipedia

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    Date of counting of votes/Result 4 June 2024: No. of constituencies: 1 Andhra Pradesh. Poll event Phase IV Notification Date 18 April

  9. Statutory declaration - Wikipedia

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    A statutory declaration is a legal document defined under the law of certain Commonwealth nations and in the United States. It is similar to a statement made under oath , but it is not sworn. Statutory declarations are commonly used to allow a person to declare something to be true for the purposes of satisfying some legal requirement or ...