Government overreach challenges America's founding principles of equality and freedom, echoing concerns from the Declaration ...

Editor's note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 249 years since the United States parted with Great Britain — we present the nation's founding document, the Declaration of ...

Known now as a day of patriotism and enjoying time off from work, the Fourth of July began the journey to becoming a quintessential American holiday in 1776, when the Second Continental Congress ...

It's the 249th birthday of the United States. And as Americans begin to prepare for our nation's grand semiquincentennial celebration next year, it is ...

The text says that governments are human constructions. The legitimacy of governments depends upon democratic consent, not ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The United States’ Declaration of Independence may well be the ...

Editor's note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 245 years since the United States parted with Great Britain — we present the nation's founding document, the Declaration of ...

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected ...

Those issues live, in the United States and elsewhere. The issues in the declaration are not merely American, but rather universal, and that is precisely what makes the United States exceptional.

With one voice, the 56 representatives from 13 olonies announced to the world the birth of a new nation they named the United States of America. From the Declaration of Independence, comes the ...

Editor's note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 247 years since the United States parted with Great Britain — we present the nation's founding document, the Declaration of ...