Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
Randa Abdel-Fattah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it wasn't the main issue that they had to contend with.
Probably the main issue was, were we a federation of states or were we one nation?
Should Congress have equal votes for state?
Should Congress?
It'd be proportional representation.
A lot of the thorniest questions remained unanswered, a problem for another day.
But on that day, July 4th, 1776, a revised version of the Committee of Five's Declaration of Independence was approved.
Now they needed to let the world know about it.
So July 4th, it goes to printer John Dunlap.
who prints up 200 copies.
And this is not, one of the things about the Declaration of Independence is we think there's that one really pretty copy with the great handwriting that everybody signed.
That's not the case.
Not all the pretty, nothing fancy.
Straight up typeset.
The day they write the Declaration, parchment copies go out and they ride from Philadelphia to the southern tip of Manhattan in New York.
Continental Army headquarters is in New York City at this time.
That's where George Washington and his troops are.
George Washington says, I want the Declaration of Independence to be read aloud to the troops.
They're still trying to convince people in the colonies.
Estimates range, but it's believed that at no time did more than 45% of colonists support the war, and around a third of colonists fought for the British.
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