Americans have labored for centuries to fulfill the promise of the American Revolution, striving to create a just society where the people are sovereign and there is equal opportunity for all...

Poster Comment:

A British Sovereign is a gold coin and has the faces of British Kings and Queens on them hence the word Sovereign. In America the people are the sovereigns not the crown.

An historian once said that humans had been forging iron for thousands of years and little human progress was made. But in 1776 a new concept was born. The idea that what I made belonged to me and not to the king. That is when western civilization took off like a rocket.