 | Alpheus Henry Snow - United States - 1921 - 500 pages
...of the Declaration reads: We, therefore, . . . declare that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, . . . and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. In this it was necessarily... | |
 | Industrial Development Manufacturers Record - Manufacturing industries - 1924 - 452 pages
...introduced into the Continental Congress a resolution that "these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." The resolution was adopted... | |
 | Harry S. Smith - Flags - 1925 - 72 pages
...2nd day of July, 1776, the American Congress resolved "that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; and that all political connection between us and Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." On the 4th day of July a Declaration of Independence... | |
 | Leroy E. Armstrong - 1916 - 408 pages
...resolution: "Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and ought to be, free and independent States, and all political connection between us and the' State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."0 John Adams, in whose soul glowed the burning future, seconded... | |
 | Education - 1917 - 220 pages
...predominating. On the 4th day of July, 1776, the Declaration of Independence of the American colonies proclaimed "that all political connection between us and the state of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved." At that time the king's colors flew on forts and ships of war,... | |
 | Richard C. Simmons - History - 1981 - 452 pages
...month later Richard Henry Lee of Virginia moved at the Congress that the colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States" and that "all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." Although the Congress... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1885 - 502 pages
...On the former of these days, when Lee's resolution, " that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, dissolved," — when this resolution was agreed... | |
 | Alan Axelrod - History - 2000 - 426 pages
...Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced another resolution: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States ... and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be totally dissolved. That it is expedient forthwith... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1870 - 900 pages
...clear, musical voice, read aloud the resolution — " That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; and that...connection between us and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." John Adams immediately seconded the resolution ; and to shield... | |
 | Dale Anderson - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 44 pages
...of America ... do . . . solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states . . . and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved." —Portion of the Declaration... | |
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That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; and that all political connection between us and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. 
