- “Intela ngaphandle kokumelwa!” kwakuyisililo sempi kumaKoloni aseMelika ayi-13, aphoqeleka ukuthi akhokhe intela iNkosi yaseNgilandi uGeorge III yize ayengenamuntu ePhalamende laseBrithani. Njengoba ukungeneliseki kwakukhula, amabutho aseBrithani athunyelwa ukuyodambisa ukunyakaza kokuqala okuya ekuvukeleni. Imizamo ephindaphindiwe yamaKoloni yokuxazulula le nkinga ngaphandle kwempi yamasosha ayibonakalisanga zithelo.
- NgoJuni 11, 1776, i-Colonies 'Second Continental Congress yahlangana ePhiladelphia futhi yakha ikomidi elalinenhloso ecacile yokwakha idokhumende eyayizoqeda ubuhlobo bayo neGreat Britain.
- Ikomidi lalihlanganisa uThomas Jefferson, uBenjamin Franklin, uJohn Adams, uRoger Sherman, noRobert R. Livingston. UJefferson, owayethathwa njengombhali onamandla futhi onekhono, waqamba idokhumenti yokuqala (njengoba kubonisiwe ngenhla). Izinguquko ezingama-86 sezenziwe embhalweni wakhe kanti iConthinent Congress yamukela ngokusemthethweni inguqulo yokugcina ngoJulayi 4, 1776.
Ngakusasa kwasatshalaliswa amakhophi eSimemezelo Sokuzimela, kwathi ngoJulayi 6, IPennsylvania Evening Post waba yiphephandaba lokuqala ukuphrinta lo mbhalo ongajwayelekile. Isimemezelo Sokuzimela selokhu saba uphawu lwenkululeko esizwela kakhulu esizweni sethu.
NgoJulayi 8, 1776, ukufundwa kokuqala komphakathi kwalesi Simemezelo kwabanjelwa e-Independence Square yaseFiladelphia lapho kuzoshaywa izinsimbi nomculo weqembu. Ngonyaka owodwa kamuva, ngoJulayi 4, 1777, iPhiladelphia yagubha usuku lwenkululeko ngokuhlehlisa iCongress nokugubha ngamalangabi, izinsimbi, neziqhumane.
LOKHO ONGAKUTHATHE KULESI SIHLOKO:
- On July 8, 1776, the first public readings of the Declaration were held in Philadelphia's Independence Square to the ringing of bells and band music.
- The following day, copies of the Declaration of Independence were distributed, and on July 6, The Pennsylvania Evening Post became the first newspaper to print the extraordinary document.
- A total of 86 changes were made to his draft and the Continental Congress officially adopted the final version on July 4, 1776.
