The past is not dead. It is not even past, as earnest historians (presumably progressive) attempt to revise the Declaration of Independence. From the Times:
Every
Fourth of July, some Americans sit down to read the Declaration of
Independence, reacquainting themselves with the nation’s founding
charter exactly as it was signed by the Second Continental Congress in
1776.
Or almost exactly? A scholar is now saying that the official transcript of the document produced by theNational Archives and Records Administrationcontains a significant error — smack in the middle of the sentence beginning “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” no less.
The
error, according to Danielle Allen, a professor at the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., concerns a period that appears right
after the phrase “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the
transcript, but almost certainly not, she maintains, on the badly faded
parchment original.
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