To the Editor:
A FCR letter on June 30 reminded patriots that the Declaration of Independence “contained the first formal assertion by a whole people of their right to a government of their own choice.” The author wrongly claims that a “whole people” claimed that right. Historians agree that approximately one third of the colonists supported independence, another third (British Loyalists)…
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