Our Sacred Honor Reflections on the Fourth of July
almost 3 years in theepochtimes
The place: Philadelphia. The time: June 1776. The Continental Congress appoints a Committee of Five—Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, and chairman John Adams of Massachusetts—to draw up a declaration of independence from Britain. Though John Adams seems the natural choice to write the […]