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The Declaration of Independence of the United States, ratified by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, was the founding document that gave rise to the United States as an independent nation, declaring the union of the 13 British colonies in North America in a new free and independent nation. Thus, the colonies declared their will to separate from Great Britain, with which they had been at war since 1775, in addition to adopting a republican and democratic system, replacing the monarchy that had governed them until then.
