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Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/Reuters The singular star of the 1976 bicentennial celebration in the nation’s capital was our founding document which formally declared America’s independence two centuries earlier. Everyone willing to stand in line for hours got a chance to see the Declaration of Independence on display at the National Archives. Thousands did, and listened to a reading of the text. The loudest cheers came at the end, with the names of the signatories from the various states that had joined to make a union. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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