More than a century later, the same flicker of freewill sparked the War for Independence and fired up a new nation.
In fact, immigration was one of the causes for the War for Independence.
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The US government did not print paper money at this time, as it had during the War for Independence, but there was plenty of paper money in use, which was issued by private banks.
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But the founders, and more specifically the framers of the Constitution, included men who had fought a war for independence -- the very war celebrated on the "Glorious Fourth" -- against a country in which church and state were essentially one.
Within hours, thousands of university students demanding his death poured into the streets of Dhaka, the seeds of what has grown into a mass protest that has exposed again the unhealed wounds from the nation's 1971 war for independence from Pakistan.
Rabin, who fought in Israel's 1948 war for independence, will be buried with full military honors Monday at the Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jewish west Jerusalem, where the remains of Zionist founder Theodor Herzl and former prime ministers Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir were laid to rest.
Excerpt: In Lincoln's hands, the Declaration of Independence became first and foremost a living document for an established society, a set of goals to be realized over time, and so an explanation less of the colonists' decision to separate from Britain than of their victory in the War for Independence.
It is often said that there is no place like Puerto Rico, whose bitter war for independence against Spain ended in 1898 with an American invasion, whose occupation ushered in the American century but whose continued purgatory -- neither the 51st state, nor an independent country -- seems aberrant in the 21st.
Within months, Nigeria was engulfed in independent Africa's first humanitarian catastrophe: a war for the independence of Mr. Achebe's Igbo homeland that left one million people dead, most of them children who starved.
Not the least of which was getting the states to foot the bill for our War of Independence.
In South Sudan -- with our assistance -- the people were finally able to vote for independence after years of war.
Bangladeshi police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse Islamist activists protesting at the trial of their leaders for war crimes allegedly committed during the independence war.
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In 1828, Russia declared war on Turkey to support Greece's battle for independence.
For years after its post-World War II independence then-Ceylon tried outright socialism.
The Jamaat-e-Islami wants the trial of its leaders for crimes allegedly committed during the 1971 independence war to be stopped.
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However, after the war Sihanouk embarked on an international campaign aimed at ensuring independence for Cambodia.
Therefore it is worth considering why such a war is all but certain and what southern Sudanese independence means for the region and the world.
The framers, having just experienced the horrors of the Continental currency (which had been used to finance the War of Independence) opted to limit federal monetary powers to coining money, which for legal tender purposes they defined as gold and silver.
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