4
Jul
Independence 2020
The most significant national holiday in the United States celebrates the Declaration of Independence, adopted on 4 July 1776. The Thirteen British American Colonies declared themselves no longer part of the British Empire. However, the revolutionary war continued after the statement for a while.
As Thomas Jefferson, eventually the third President of the United States, wrote in the Declaration of Independence to justify the American colonies’ decision to break away from Britain, “When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.” A lesson to be learnt by so many of the poor governments and administrations!
BRAMS Institute wishes all Americans a happy Independence Day amid the world pandemic.
