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American Dreaming

By Tracy Anderson

Thursday, July 2, 2009

The year was 1776, there were five dudes—John Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman—and they were like, "Yo, let's write up this statement, we'll call it the Declaration of Independence, and it'll tell Great Britain that our thirteen American colonies ain't down to be a part of the British Empire no 'more." So Thomas Jefferson got busy with his feathered pen and drafted together banger sentences like, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, t ...

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