U.S. Independence: Result of an Enlightened Mind?

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 compel them to separation. With these stirring and lofty phrases the colonists of 1776 were impelled to revolution by the...