On October 5, the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, a good document all right, but only if it were followed. ... As more soldiers were needed to liberate the rest of Europe, France instituted history's first universal levy, the ultimate in state control over the lives of its citizens. ... Every citizen was required to carry an identity card issued by his local commune, called Certificates of Good Citizenship. ... A war was fought to be sure, and soldiers died in that war. ... After the Boston Massacre, when the British soldiers who had...

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My conception of religious liberty was vague when I was younger, but as I got older and I became aware of the world around me, religious liberty has been a topic that everyone has been discussing - not only privately but also in public and especially in the papers. I used to be an uninformed protestant of the Lutheran church. I once read in the newspaper that Denmark is the least religious country in the world. When I compare my own country to the U.S, I do not have to have read books or taken lessons to know that America is a highly religious country, and has been since its earliest days. Fur...

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Independence Day is the national holiday of the United States of America commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the time of the signing the US consisted of 13 colonies under the rule of England's ...

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