The American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for July 3, 2026

Throwing Off Despotism: For Independence Day, a Portion on the Declaration of Independence
For July 4th, while we can't read the entire Declaration of Independence in 90 seconds, we read a portion which includes the passage: "But 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." Happy Independence Day.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:

National Archives - Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
National Archives - The Declaration of Independence: A History
American Constitution Center - Constitutional Voices: African Americans’ early responses to the Declaration of Independence
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The Declaration of Independence and Women’s Rights

Related ADM Reports:

American Democracy Minute - Thomas Jefferson Gets the Credit for the Declaration, but the ‘Independence’ Part Came from Richard Henry Lee on June 7, 1776

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