US Military Challenge Coin Presidential 1776 Declaration of Independence Commemorative Coin

·The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia Pennsylvania on July 4 1776. The Declaration announced that the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain would regard themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states no longer under British rule. With the Declaration these new states took a collective first step toward forming the United States of America. The declaration was signed by representatives from New Hampshire Massachusetts Bay Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland Delaware Virginia North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia. ·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.