The 4th of July always brings forth ideas of what America’s about. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness: all suitable imprints of a quill crushing history into parchment. The intent of the writer, the heart’s blood of the scribe spoke of his yearning for self-determination and freedom from the yoke of tyranny. That yoke was secured by a government believing itself better knowing the needs of the “subjects” than they, themselves. It propelled a defiant documentation of hope in the Declaration of Independence.