There was nothing sheepish about the men meeting in Philadelphia in July of 1776.
Pondering the feasibility (and danger?) of creating a totally new, independent Nation, they were grappling and sparring over words and language that would excise the American colonies from Mother England and declare independence.
But there definitely was something sheepish about the final document that held the words eventually agreed upon to comprise the independence declaration. And thereby hangs the tale of paper’s being upstaged ...
