Founders on God & Country: Roger Sherman
Magic Valley Mormon (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
... everlasting life and glory, and the wicked be sentenced to everlasting punishment." --The Life of Roger Sherman, pp. 272-273.
Roger Sherman
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Comment On John Adams & Rationalism
Positive Liberty (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
... first draft of the DofI by the drafting committee, comprised of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston: http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/declaration/declaration.html 1) Jefferson’s first draft included the term, “sacred and undeniable” – here is the original draft: “We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant...
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Today in History–July 23
Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
BIODUN IGINLA, BBC News, New York LEAD STORY July 23, 1984 Miss America resigns On this day in 1984, 21-year-old Vanessa Williams gives up her Miss America title, the first resignation in the pageant’s history,… MORE > GENERAL INTEREST 1952: Military seizes power in Egypt 1967: The 12th Street riot AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1793: Connecticut Patriot Roger Sherman dies AUTOMOTIVE 1903: First...
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The Live, Fortune, and Sacred Honor of William Williams
Wampum (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
William Williams was elected to Continental Congress for the years 1776-1777. He did not vote for it as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, that fell to Oliver Wolcott, Roger Sherman and Samuel Huntington, who did. However, he signed it, risking the punishment of traitors -- hanged, drawn and quartered. Later William Williams was appointed a member of the committee to frame...
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Happy Independence Day
CALIFORNIA YANKEE (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Chronology Of Events: June 7, 1776 to January 18, 1777 1776 June 7 -- Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, receives Richard Henry Lee's resolution urging Congress to declare independence. June 11 -- Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston appointed to a committee to draft a declaration of independence. American army retreats to Lake Champlain...
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On Reading the Declaration of Independence
Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Drafting the Declaration. On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston as a committee to draft a declaration of independence. In 1823 Jefferson wrote that the other members of the...
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The Declaration of Independence
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
... The committee included Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman, with the actual writing delegated to Jefferson. Jefferson drafted the statement between June 11 and 28, submitted drafts to Adams and Franklin who made some changes, and then presented the draft to the Congress following the July 2nd adoption of the independence section...
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