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    1 year ago

    Then, again, what makes a document written before America existed where we get American values from? They would not be American values if they were written before there was an America.

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      1 year ago

      In Congress, July 4, 1776

      The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, …

      America didn’t begin with the signing of the Constitution.

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        It absolutely did. Those states still operated as independent entities. They were united on the issue of declaring independence. Until the Constitution was signed, the states were not united as a nation.