"While North Carolina has the honor of first authorizing its delegates to concur with other Colonies in declaring independence, it was quickly followed by South Carolina and Georgia, which also gave general instructions broad enough to include such action."
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Calvin Coolidge, "Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence", Philadelphia, PA (July 5, 1926)
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