The men who signed the Declaration of Independence had very few illusions  about what they were risking. How much of what .... There is no doubt that the  signers of the Declaration knew they were up to something far more serious than  making a brave gesture when they put their signatures on the document. Indeed,  for ...
May 4, 2015 ... One of our more memorable fact-checks from that race was Huckabee's claim  that the signers of the Declaration of Independence were "brave people, most of  whom, by the way, were clergymen." Huckabee (who has worked as a minister)  was totally off on the numbers: Only one out of 56 signers was a ...
Dec 31, 2007 ... Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, for example, was called out  for being "pants-on-fire" wrong for his claim during a Oct. 21, 2007, debate in  Orlando that "The signers of the Declaration of Independence were 'brave people , most of whom, by the way, were clergymen.'" PolitiFact.com notes ...
Jul 3, 2013 ... We'll acknowledge, truths aren't always self-evident. That's why we're here! For  Independence Day, we've rounded up our fact-checks of claims about the  Declaration of Independence. In the words of our founders: let facts be submitted  to a candid world. Thomas Jefferson called regulations an 'endemic ...
Jun 21, 2017 ... Because English language Bibles could not be printed in America but had to be  imported, when the Revolution began and the British began to blockade all  materials coming to America, the ability to obtain such Bibles ended. Therefore,  in 1777, America began experiencing a shortage of several important ...
The signers of the Declaration of Independence were "brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen."