Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“The word semiquincentennial is not likely to catch on – it’s too hard to say – but it means the 250th anniversary. For the USA, that happens July 4, 2026, because we count our birthday from one of the most remarkable documents issued in the history of man: the Declaration of Independence. That alone is notable. We don’t date our birth from the Articles of Confederation, the ratification of the US Constitution, or back much earlier to the landing on Plymouth Rock. No, we date it from the time when some men representing everyone said that we are now independent from the British Empire. We can and will govern ourselves. The nation’s birthday is not the government’s birthday. It marks instead a revolution against government.” (08/15/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-meaning-of-the-semiquincentennial/