the FOIA version of the Declaration of Independence

ProgressiveHistorians:: FOIA : Declaration of Independence:

As a class project fifth grader Cecile Lipscomb submitted a Freedom of Information request to the White House for a copy of the Declaration of Independence. Now 17, Cecile shared with me the document he just now received.

View my reconstruction of the heavily redacted Declaration of Independence Cecile finally got from the White House below the fold.

FOIA : Declaration of Independence

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 assume among the powers of the earth, the Laws of God requires that they should [.]

Keep reading. It, even better than the 90 minute cut of Brazil, can show you just what a really good (bad?) editor can achieve with a work and still keep "nothing but the original words" on it.