Op/Ed: The Declaration of Independence — Proof of Our National Identity

By Christopher P. Gerber, Esquire Christopher P. Gerber America is 249 years young.  On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress separated from Great Britain by approving a Resolution proposed by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown,...