@Janus:
isnt it interesting, that in america we celebrate the 4th of july as our independence day, when the actual declaration was signed on the 2nd of august?
The signing of the document was really the anticlimax. It was adopted by congress on July 4th 1776.
They started to sign it on August 2nd but the signing wasn’t compeated until much later, monthes later, if I remember right.