South Carolina H 3708: 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration

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2025-2026 Bill 3708 Text of Previous Version (Jan. 15, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3708

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A house RESOLUTION

to announce the two hundred 
fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the declaration of Independence on july 
4, 2026, which established the greatest experiment of liberty in the world, 
which has continued for two and a half centuries.

Whereas, on July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted 
by the Continental Congress. Under the supervision of the Jefferson committee, 
which included Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. 
Livingston, and Roger Sherman, the approved Declaration was printed on July 5, 
1776, and a copy was attached to the journal of the Continental Congress for 
July 4; and

Whereas, the printed copies, bearing only the names of John Hancock, president, 
and Charles Thomson, secretary, were distributed to state assemblies, 
conventions, committees of safety, and commanding officers of the Continental 
troops; and

Whereas, on July 19, Congress ordered that the Declaration be 
engrossed (printed in a large hand) on parchment with a new title, "the 
unanimous declaration of the thirteen united states of America," and "that the 
same, when engrossed, be signed by every member of Congress." South Carolina's 
signers included Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr., and Arthur 
Middleton; and

Whereas, communities, towns, cities, businesses, and citizens in the 
State of South Carolina should begin preparations and designate funds for celebratory 
activities to honor and recognize this momentous and historic 
semiquincentennial event. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:

That the members of the South 
Carolina House of Representatives, by this 
resolution, announce the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the 
Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026, which established the greatest 
experiment of liberty in the world, which has continued for two and a half 
centuries.

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