United States Independence
The inherited card combines the 1776 declaration, the 1775–1783 war and the 1787–1789 constitutional settlement into one foundational event claim.
Four documentary chronology claims now have exact National Archives excerpt receipts and pointers, but they await human review and the later-hegemony interpretation remains unsupported.
Dimension marks aid inspection; they are not averaged into the confidence band.
- Legacy author label
- strong
- Publication posture
- claim receipts staged human review pending
- Indexed record
- 0 citations · 6 relations
Each proposition carries its own scope, evidence maturity, estimate semantics and staged confidence. Dossier context no longer substitutes for claim-level judgment.
The Declaration was adopted in 1776.
- Time
- 1776–1787
- Place / frame
- British North America / United States
- Evidence links
- 2
- Estimate links
- 0
Exact official-source receipts directly attest the bounded chronology. Confidence remains staged because the bindings have not received named human review and do not support broader causal interpretation.
claim-us-independence-vote-1776-07-02awaiting human reviewsupportsclaim-us-declaration-adopted-1776-07-04awaiting human reviewWhy publication is blocked
- claim bindings unreviewed
- human review receipt missing
normalized-claim:event-united-states-independence-1776ce:01Independence involved a longer war and a later constitutional settlement.
- Time
- 1776–1787
- Place / frame
- British North America / United States
- Evidence links
- 2
- Estimate links
- 0
Exact official-source receipts directly attest the bounded chronology. Confidence remains staged because the bindings have not received named human review and do not support broader causal interpretation.
claim-us-war-ended-recognition-1783awaiting human reviewsupportsclaim-us-constitution-signed-1787awaiting human reviewWhy publication is blocked
- claim bindings unreviewed
- human review receipt missing
normalized-claim:event-united-states-independence-1776ce:02The inherited global-hegemony claim is analytically separate from the founding chronology.
- Time
- 1776–1787
- Place / frame
- British North America / United States
- Evidence links
- 1
- Estimate links
- 0
No claim-scoped evidence pack supports this proposition. Unknown is preserved rather than converted into a synthetic confidence score.
claim-us-later-global-hegemonyseparate evidence pack requiredWhy publication is blocked
- claim scoped evidence incomplete
- human review receipt missing
normalized-claim:event-united-states-independence-1776ce:03Documentary chronology is separated from interpretation. Every receipt is immutable in this overlay, but none is accepted for canonical promotion until human review.
The Continental Congress voted for independence on July 2, 1776.
Creating the Declaration: A Timelinecritical edition · National Archivessource ↗Pointer · Timeline section ‘July 2, 1776: Lee Resolution Adopted & Consideration of Declaration’
On July 2, the Lee resolution was adopted by 12 of the 13 colonies (New York did not vote).
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The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
Declaration of Independence (1776)primary source · National Archivessource ↗Pointer · Milestone record, introductory chronology
The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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The Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as independent in 1783.
Treaty of Paris (1783)primary source · National Archivessource ↗Pointer · Milestone record, first descriptive paragraph
ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation.
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A new constitutional frame was signed on September 17, 1787, after independence.
Constitution of the United States (1787)primary source · National Archivessource ↗Pointer · Milestone record, document description
this four-page document, signed on September 17, 1787, established the government of the United States.
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The founding chronology directly explains later United States global hegemony.
This interpretation requires a separate evidence pack. Chronology sources do not inherit into it.
The committed card still has no canonical citation; four exact excerpt receipts now exist only in the V2 overlay.
Declaration, war, state formation and later hegemony are compressed into one causal sentence.
Four claim-scoped candidates await human review; the later-hegemony interpretation remains unsupported.
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