D.G. Martin discusses The Mecklenburg Resolves and The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence as America's 250th birthday ...

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, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit ...

Thanks to Ms. Griffith we can put the Mecklenburg Resolves in the context of resolves adopted in other American colonies as a part of the growing resistance to British oppression.