A reading from the beginning of the United States Declaration of Independence in ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response). The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America) is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule. With the Declaration, these new states took a collective first step toward forming the United States of America. - Wikipedia