VP Vance: The Declaration Was Written with the Assumption That Its Audience Would Grasp Its Words, It Wasn’t Written for the Generations to Come

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VANCE: "So just a few days after the Declaration of Independence was signed, George Washington read aloud The words Of the incredible declaration We hold these truths to be self-evident That all men are created equal That they are endowed by their creator With certain unalienable rights And that among these rights Are life Liberty And the pursuit Even today 250 years to the day later These words command a tremendous power Over us as Americans For 250 years They have stirred our hearts And they’ve reminded us Of who we are As a people But to Washington’s soldiers To whom they were first read Think about this Because they were entirely new What has become standard American parlance They had never heard those words before And it is striking to reflect on That in 2026 The Declaration was written with the assumption that its audience would immediately grasp Its words Though they had never heard them They’D know exactly what it meant It wasn’t written for historians It wasn’t written For academics Or generations to come But for the people Of this fledgling country It’s been written Into a new system of government"