2007-07-06 07:31:46 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Independence Day
July 4 is the date chosen to celebrate the USA's independance from the oppresion of England at that time (1776) Though the war didn't start till later, this was the date that the 13 colonies ratified the agreement to fight for independance.
2007-07-06 07:39:56 · answer #1 · answered by Marvinator 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is all about Freedom! We were under the iron rule of George III of England. Things were bad. We had no freedom of worship and we had to pay the Kings preachers and we also had to pay the soldiers and let them stay in our homes in order to force us to do what the King said!
The Declaration of Independence is much more than a political document. It constitutes a spiritual manifesto--revelation, if you will--declaring not for this nation only, but for all nations, the source of man's rights. A prophet foresaw over 2,300 years ago that this event would transpire. The colonies
he saw would break with Great Britain and that 'the power of the Lord was with [the colonists],' that they 'were delivered by the power of God out of the hands of all other nations.'
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition--the divine right of kings. At issue was the fundamental question of whether men's rights were God-given or whether these rights were to be dispensed by governments to their subjects.
This document proclaimed that all men have certain inalienable rights. In other words, these rights came from God.
John Adams' famous letter of July 3, 1776, in which he wrote to his wife Abigail what his thoughts were about celebrating the Fourth of July is found on various web sites but is usually incorrectly quoted. Following is the exact text from his letter with his original spellings:
The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not. (The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784, Harvard University Press, 1975, 142).
We continue to celebrate the great day that we asserted our God given right to Freedom! I hope we always will!
2007-07-07 01:10:23 · answer #2 · answered by Alvin York 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom in the USA
2007-07-06 14:39:55 · answer #3 · answered by mel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My birthday
2007-07-06 14:40:38 · answer #4 · answered by Beer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Canadians are finally recovering from their hangovers and they realize that they ain't dead yet!
2007-07-06 14:35:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
b/c people like to have days off from work/school... and shoot off things.
2007-07-06 14:39:18 · answer #6 · answered by xbadlydrawngirlx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋