As America turns 250, we trace the triumphs, contradictions and arguments that shaped the world’s first liberal republic And ...

The Declaration of Independence confidently announces that America is now a separate nation from Britain and declares the new nation’s purpose, making it essential to our Founding. To understand and ...

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 ...

When Thomas Jefferson was chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence, he had an exceedingly difficult task ahead of him. The 33-year-old planter, who had left law practice just before Britain’s ...

There is confidence in the Declaration of Independence and the arguments made by the patriots in the years leading up to 1776. Leading loyalists or new Whigs warned of dreadful consequences that would ...

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 ...

President Trump's actions in office are seen as violating the Declaration of Independence's core principles. Trump's approach to governing is compared to King George III, prioritizing a "unitary ...