Vance: "It was written for the people"
July 4, 2026
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as posted by the channelVice President JD Vance said the Declaration of Independence was written to inspire the people living in America at the time, giving soldiers a reason to fight.
"I think it's something striking to reflect on, that in 2026, the Declaration was written with the assumption that its audience would immediately grasp its words — though they had never heard it, they would know exactly what it meant," he said in New York Harbor on the 250th anniversary of its signing.
"It wasn't written for historians, it wasn't written for academics, it wasn't written for the generations to come. It was written for the people of this fledgling country. It was written for the soldiers who would fight to turn those words into a new system of government."
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