Chief Justice Roberts on the Declaration of Independence

Roberts' year-end report on the federal judiciary includes some notable statements about the Declaration and its relevance to ...
The EconomistOpinion

The Declaration of Independence still defines America’s purpose, writes Jon Meacham

As America turns 250, we trace the triumphs, contradictions and arguments that shaped the world’s first liberal republic And ...
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The Declaration of Independence: Read it, learn it, live it

The Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration explained why the 13 colonies at ...
The Daily Signal

What Declaration of Independence Teaches Us About Our Rights, Duties as Americans

Richard M. Reinsch II is director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation and columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also a senior writer for Law & Liberty. If we ...
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Read the Declaration of Independence

In June of 1776, the Continental Congress formed a five-person committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston to draft a declaration of ...
Reason

The Declaration of Independence Promotes Individual Liberty More than Collective Self-Determination

The connection between individual liberty and the principles of the Declaration of Independence should be obvious. After all, the most famous passage in the Declaration states that all men have the ...
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Social media erupts after Marjorie Taylor Greene posts about signers of Declaration of Independence

ATLANTA — In an effort to show her patriotism following the 4th of July, Georgia U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share some fun “facts” about the ...
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Surprising Names Missing From the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Many founding fathers were unable to sign the Declaration ...
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Declaration Trivia

Declaration Trivia A widely held misconception about the Declaration of Independence is it was signed on July 4, 1776. In an extraordinary coincidence, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on ...
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How a rare copy of Declaration of Independence ended up in a Michigan museum

Lauren Milliman peered through the display glass, admiring not just what the words on the parchment said, but also the way they looked, with flowing loops and flourishes. "I'm looking at how pretty it ...
Newsweek

Marjorie Taylor Greene Trashed by Historians over Independence Declaration Claim

A number of prominent historians have hit out at House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene following an X post in which she falsely claimed six key figures from American history had signed the 1776 ...