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Tried Filipinas on different furnitures in our apartment. She loved them all.

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Since 1776, more than 100 countries

have issued a Declaration of Independence

with words or ideas inspired by or derived from our own.

That government is an extraordinary human invention.

Those documents that have birthed that invention

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have special place in the human treasury.

The Declaration of Independence

is for sure one of those.

The Declaration was written by a committee,

but the chief author was a 33-year-old lawyer

and mathematician, Thomas Jefferson.

It was really exciting when the people of the library

decided to reintroduce Thomas Jefferson's draft

of the Declaration to the public.

It has people who--

Oh, yeah.

--see how much change and revision

and argument it has had since the document didn't just

spring in its final form of what Jefferson said.

Daniel Allen is a Harvard University professor,

and the author of a terrific book entitled,

"The Declaration."

I'm a total Declaration of Independence fan,

and so I love every single version of the Declaration

that exists.

I love the versions that are in the handwriting of Mr.

Jefferson and John Adams, and you can actually

feel their personalities at work.

--is something that earlier generations

created to remain a purpose.

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