This is another cache in the patriotic series where from at least one stage of the cache you will be able to see an American flag. The cache is not at the posted coordinates. Solve the puzzle to get to the final container. BYOP. Use stealth.
On July 2, 1776, during the American Revolution, the legal separation of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain was approved by the Second Continental Congress. It voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in the previous month by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, declaring the United States independent from Great Britain's rule. A letter was sent to King George III. The thirteen colonies were now united, free and independent states.
After voting for independence, Congress turned its attention to the document prepared by the Committee of Five with Thomas Jefferson as the main author. Congress debated and made revisions of the Declaration of Independence, finally approving it two days later on July 4.
The first Independence Day was celebrated on July 8, 1776, in Philadelphia. The official signing took place on August 2. At that time the population of America was around 2.5 million people.
The White House celebrated Independence Day for the first time in 1801.
Almost 100 years after the Declaration of Independence, in 1870, July 4 was made an official holiday by Congress.
Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence and signed it before becoming president. He later served as the third president of America from 1801 to 1809. Coincidentally, Jefferson died on July 4, 1826.
Every 4th of July the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia is tapped – although not actually rung – 13 times in honor of the original 13 American colonies.
America’s oldest continuous Independence Day celebration is the 4th of July parade in Bristol in Rhode Island. This year it will celebrate its 232nd year.
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
The cache is not at the posted coordinates. Answer the questions below about the Bill of Rights to get the final coordinates.
N 32° 1A.BB1
W 111° 00.C54
A = Bars the government from search and seizure and arbitrary arrest; the basis of search warrant laws.
B = States that listing specific rights in the Constitution does not mean that people do not have other rights that have not been spelled out.
C = Guarantees the right to a jury in federal civil trials.
Checker: Add up the numbers (using each number only once), the total should be 20. Do not count B twice.
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