Planetlines

Introduction: This tandem lecture given in 1978 at a conference of the National Astrological Society in Tucson was a natural outgrowth of the investigations Jim Lewis and I made of Helen Boyd’s U.S. chart within the year or two after the publication of her book, The True Horoscope of the United States, in the mid-1970s. [...]

This was approved on July 5th, but finalized on the 8th. In between came the less obsequious (though still polite) Declaration on the 6th.

- KI

The Olive Branch Petition
July 8, 1775
To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty.
MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN: We, your Majesty’s faithful subjects of the Colonies of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of Newcastle, [...]

It seems appropriate here to look at the declaration itself. Spellings are as in the original.
- KI

Declaration of the causes and necessity of taking up arms
July 6, 1775
A declaration by the representatives of the united colonies of North America, now met in Congress at Philadelphia, setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up [...]