The Declaration of Independence was a charter and a manifesto, yes, but in essence it was a memo, a hastily drafted, ...

For 250 years we have revered the writings of Thomas Jefferson and others who authored our Declaration of Independence, ...

A few words in the Declaration of Independence, describing Indigenous people as "savages," did lasting damage, professor ...

You know how important the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were to making the United States. But do you know ...

On Independence Day, we present the Declaration of Independence. 2025 marks 249 years since the United States’ founding document was adopted by the delegates to the Second Continental Congress in ...

Aspirations for Power Need To Be Checked' In a special America 250 issue, Reason takes a look back at our country's founding ...

It doesn't matter what the founders intended in the Declaration of Independence, the Rev. Byron Williams argues. It's all in ...

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, America is in a pretty foul mood, and I understand ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: On this, the anniversary of our nation’s independence, we think it is important to publish these words that our forefathers inked 249 years ago in declaration of our fledgling nation’s ...

This is the second of a three-part series originally delivered as a lecture May 15 at a conference, “The Declaration of ...

How many times have we heard those words? In 2007, The Washington Post published an article by Gene Weingarten called “Pearls Before Breakfast.” In it, he chronicles an experiment by the newspaper, in ...

Present politics seem to explain the discordant interpretations being placed upon the US brief foundational statement ...