Over two hundred and thirty years ago, the American colonists were
fed up with the tyranny of the British crown. As a result,
representatives from the thirteen colonies gathered in Philadelphia to
draft one of the most important documents in our history, The
Declaration of Independence the document, signed on this day two hundred and thirty-six years
ago, informed King George III that the American colonies were
overthrowing his right to rule them and that they were going to
establish their own independent country most Americans know that Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of
Independence, but few know that the foundational concepts of freedom
from which Jefferson drew came from the pulpit and pen of a pastor who
served decades before the War of Independence: the Rev. John Wise.
