Drinking English Breakfast tea with a spot of cream after reading the Declaration of Independence. It has long been my habit to begin this day by reading the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States (though I have been known to get caught up in the reading and go a bit further (but very rarely past the 10th Amendment)).
It’s interesting that we celebrate independence on the day we formally declared it as opposed to the day we actually achieved it.
I have much to say on the subject, but refuse to be controversial today. Suffice it to say, I find Liberty to be taking quite a beating lately.
As a side note, I recently encountered this post from AJ Jacobs. I think I will participate this year! See “Keeping Democracy Sweet?”
For your reading pleasure, I offer the following links at the National Archives:
