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July 4 1776 Torch Is Lighted in Freedom's Cause
A historical retrospective traces freedom from Hammurabi to Greek and Roman democracies, to English liberties and the rise of American independence. It notes how Magna Charta, Petition of Rights, Bill of Rights, and Locke influenced the Declaration of Independence and the revolutionary push for consent of the governed.
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Babylonia
Greece
Rome
Athens
B. C
Solon
Adriatic Sea
Horatius
Philippides
Marathon
Pericles
Finis
Britain
Europe
Charles Martel
Alfred the Great
England
Alfred
Albion
Henry I
John
Edward
America
Switzerland
William Tell
John Ball
Kent
Adam
Wat Tyler
Tyler
Atlantic Coast
Virginia
Atlantic
Westphalia
Holland
Oliver Cromwell
New York
John Locke
Locke
George III
New York City
Congress
Boston
Continental Congress
Philadelphia