Painting showing Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Benjamin Franklin presenting the first draft of the Declaration of Independence to the Second Continental Congress. Less than a week later, on July 4, 1776, the colonial delegates signed the Document. Celebrate American History with this digitally restored vintage war poster product from The War Is Hell Store. Want More Military and History Products? Check Out
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The founding fathers clung to their guns and bibles, too. That's why the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and the right to keep and bear arms.
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By the current Department of Homeland Security's standards, the original Founding Fathers would have been considered Right-Wing Extremists.
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Join, or Die is Benjamin Franklin's political cartoon published in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. It's the earliest known pictorial representation of colonial union produced by a British colonist in America.
The original was actually a woodcut showing a snake severed into eighths, with each segment labeled with the initial of a British American colony or region. The cartoon appeared along with Franklin's editorial about the "disunited state" of the colonies, and helped make his point about the importance of colonial unity.