Key Developments: Week of Jun. 11, 1776 – Williamsburg – The VA Convention conducts its third and final reading of the newly drafted VA Declaration of Rights. It passes unanimously on Jun 15th. Excerpts follow: “ OF made by the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention, which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government: Section 1. That all men are by nature equally free and indepe…
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