Earl R. Merrill: A Typo In The First Printing Of The Declaration Of Independence Has Been A Problem For Centuries

Sunday, November 4, 2018

A Typo In The First Printing Of The Declaration Of Independence Has Been A Problem For Centuries

Oh. Whoops. We’ve often been reprinting it with the accidental addition of a period after “the pursuit of happiness” because the first printer deposited one there. And … that’s not what that sentence means. One typo means most of us have been “losing sight of what the Declaration of Independence is all about.”