With these observations, I join the last sentence of Part III of the opinion of the Court .< p > For the immediate future, however, the majority has placed its imprimatur on a practice that can only weaken the principle of equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Equal Protection Clause.

* Independence – The observations are always assumed to be independent of each other.

* Conch Republic Independence Celebration ( Key West, Florida ) – April 23

* Independence day ( Syria ) – April 17

* 1724 – Lyman Hall, American physician, clergyman, and statesman, signer of United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1790 )

* 1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War ( or American War of Independence ) are ratified.

* 1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.

* 1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

* 1947 – India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August – November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence

* Duncan, A. A. M., The Kingship of the Scots 842 – 1292: Succession and Independence.

* 1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.

* 1930 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.

* 1782 – American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes begins.

* 1825 – Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.

* 1922 – Battle of Dumlupinar: the final battle in the Greek-Turkish War (" Turkish War of Independence ").

* 1946 – Syria obtains its Independence from the French occupation.

* 1766 – Collin McKinney, American surveyor, merchant, politician, and preacher, helped draft the Texas Declaration of Independence ( d. 1861 )

* 1824 – Greek War of Independence: Constantine Kanaris leads a Greek fleet to victory against Ottoman and Egyptian ships in the Battle of Samos.

* 1332 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Dupplin Moor – Scots under Domhnall II, Earl of Mar are routed by Edward Balliol.

* 1920 – The Latvian – Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.

* 1721 – Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U. S. Declaration of Independence ( d. 1793 )

* 1929 – Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.

* 1834 – The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.

Independence Day is the appropriate date as a symbolical reminder of the American article of faith that governments are instituted among men to secure to them certain inalienable rights, the first of which is life, and when any government becomes subversive of that end, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.

* 15 August is Indian Independence Day since 1947.

* 14 August is Pakistan's Independence Day since 1947.

The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

The show's creator and producer, Paul Henning is from Independence, Missouri, and donated for the Ruth and Paul Henning Conservation Area near Branson.

Since the Irish War of Independence, the name ' Boxing Day ' is used only by the authorities in Northern Ireland, which remains part of the UK.

The Irish War of Independence is sometimes referred to as the " Tan War " or " Black-and-Tan War.

This description in reference to the Act of Union 1801 which expanded the United Kingdom of Great Britain to include Ireland, has since been greatly expanded, although the primary date of UK Independence is now given as 1927.

The beginning of the Independence movement is traditionally dated as September 18, 1810 when a national junta was established to govern Chile in the name of the deposed king Ferdinand VII.

Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, have, since the 1950s, celebrated both Dominion or Canada Day and the United States ' Independence Day with the International Freedom Festival ; a massive fireworks display over the Detroit River, the strait separating the two cities, is held annually with hundreds of thousands of spectators attending.

As can be seen in the texts, the French declaration is heavily influenced by the political philosophy of the Enlightenment, and by Enlightenment principles of human rights, some of which it shares with the U. S. Declaration of Independence which preceded it ( 4 July 1776 ).

However December 16 is only the date on which the state celebrates the event, while the actual day on which the independence of Bahrain was declared was August 15, 1971 ( see Bahrain Independence Day )

A modern revelation that resulted in some " disaffection " and " led to intense conflict in scattered areas of the RLDS Church " is contained in the Community of Christ version's Section 156, presented by Prophet-President Wallace B. Smith and added in 1984, which called for construction of the Independence Temple and the ordination of women to the priesthood, among other changes.

This regiment is known as the " Dragões da Independência " ( Dragoons of Independence ).

In the United States Declaration of Independence, the British government is cited to have been reducing the American people under absolute despotism: " But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security ".

The Spanish founded modern day Quito and Guayaquil as part of the political-administration era which lasted until the war of Independence, the rise of Gran Colombia and Simón Bolívar to the final separation of his vision into what is known today as the Republic of Ecuador.