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Happy 4th of July to USA jellies. Would you have the courage to write and/or sign something equivalent to the Declaration of Independence?

Asked by josie (30934points) July 4th, 2012

The American colonies were already at war with England, so it is not as if there was any need to be polite.

And it would have been logistically and politically difficult (Parliament was not uniformly opposed to separation), to send a party of British soldiers to arrest and hang the signers.

But still, they were pretty much giving the finger to King George III, and to a lesser extent Parliament. The risk was still real that they could be prosecuted as traitors.

Do you have what it takes to do something like that?

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