From the July 2008 American Speaker issue:

“[The Continental Congress] ... wanted to put its case before ‘the court of world opinion,’ and needed a dignified and well-argued but ringing and memorable statement of what it was doing and why it was doing it. It also wanted to give the future citizens of America a classic statement of what their country was about, so that their children and their children’s children could study it and learn it by heart ...

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