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We the representatives of the people of the Commonwealth of Liberia, in Convention assembled, invested with authority for forming a new government, relying upon the aid the protection of the Great Arbiter of human events, do hereby, in the name, and on the behalf of the people of this Commonwealth, publish and declare the said Commonwealth a FREE, SOVEREIGN, AND INDEPENDENT STATE, by the name and title of the republic OF LIBERIA.
C. H. Huberich, The Political and Legislative History of Liberia (1947) I 828–32
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Wilson, H.S. (1969). In Convention. Declaration of Independence, 1847. In: Origins of West African Nationalism. History in Depth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15352-7_4
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