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Again, i always think back to franklin and the rising sun and thats exactly what weve seen through the years. This little humble room is really everything that the United States has been and will be. Its going to grow from events that happen over about a 1011 year period in this room and its amazing when you think of this humble place and the men that sat here and the things they did, its really incredible the things that have grown from this space. The Pennsylvania State house is a real name of independence. It was pennsylvanias capitol until 1789. Pennsylvania moves its government west to ul...

Visits, you gather all the old veterans like Thomas Jefferson and tom adams are alive and they get together and celebrate lafayette. Its a wonderful explanation of patriot rancic memory. Its probably one of the first where were looking and embracing history. People are starting to be able to purchase their copies of the declaration of independence and put them above the fireplace. And were celebrating the words and the actual document. So fortunately, this room kind of becomes a Historic Place before they got to the point of totally getting rid of the building and turning it down to build some...

The british suddenly find they have to worry about a french navy. The United States doesnt have much of a navy to threaten the british fleet, but france does. So they have to worry about that. The british have to worry about being invaded. Guys like Benjamin Franklin working with lafayette in france work on the king to try to get some invasion of england going. Youll have to worry if you are Great Britain about islands in the caribbean, youll be fighting in asia, africa, all over the world. So a lot of resources suddenly arent coming here to north america which makes George Washingtons life ea...

Throughout its history. Pennsylvania has a very different setup. It proves to be too radical to work. And its only going to last about 17 years. Theyll have to redo it and go to the traditional governor, two houses of legislature setup. In 1776, each of these states is going to start itself over. Now the problem is, being all a little bit different, and one of my colleagues loves to talk about that today. We still have differences from state to state as far as speed limits and little rules for driving are going to be different. And so we still have some of those vestiges there. Now what do we ...

Naturally, thats a really good idea. So theyll have it handwritten and by the beginning of august, its done and checked over. They make sure its all right. Theyll start signing. About 50 guys sign it on august 2nd. A few more over the next couple of weeks. One guy might not be for a couple more years because he just wasnt here for a while as a member of congress. Thats the one, if you go to washington, d. C. , national archives, thats the one most of us think of as the declaration of independence. But its one that we, like everything theyre going to do in this room, is one that we get to by pr...