Representative Chrissy Sommer's SPECIAL INDEPENDENCE DAY EDITION - Capitol Report 7-3-12

Happy Independence Day, my fellow Americans!

Before we celebrate with parties and fireworks, we should also celebrate the Declaration of Independence itself, because this document not only symbolizes liberty and freedom for US citizens, but its language makes the strong case that liberty and freedom are the right of all people's  everywhere. A decade into the 21st century, the world is still opulated by many people who live under tyranny and dictatorships, and who yearn to express their right to self-government and self-determination.

We are about to celebrate Independence Day, which commemorates not the date on which American independence was actually declared (July 2), but, instead, the date the document we know as the Declaration of Independence was adopted and signed.

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