By Colin Egan Every year around the Fourth of July, Americans watch movies or plays, or read accounts about the singular event that gave birth to our democracy. However, in the wake of a very recent Supreme Court ruling, a slight revision to the traditional retelling of that story seems in order: It was sweltering in Philadelphia on July 1, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress took up the question of American freedom from Great Britain. As Thomas Jefferson was reading the Declaration of Independence out loud, most delegates were too preoccupied listening, never mind just trying to not no…
