The original Declaration of Independence is secure in the National Archives, presumably safe from Nicolas Cage.

The Declaration of Independence was approved on July 4, 1776, dissolving political ties with Great Britain. The Declaration outlines the philosophy that governments derive their power from the consent ...

The primary obligation of any government, the Declaration of Independence tells us in its famous second paragraph, is the “safety and happiness” of its citizens. The necessity of securing safety is ...

Suffice it to say, America is somewhat undereducated when it comes to civics, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Now is the time to change this. Few people know that the First ...

Roberts' year-end report on the federal judiciary includes some notable statements about the Declaration and its relevance to constitutional interpretation and judicial review. In his year-end report ...

They launched a bold experiment to create a new nation where the government answered to the people, not the other way around. The experiment was built on a few core principles — human dignity, the ...

Hoosiers don’t have to travel to Washington, D.C. or Philadelphia to see one of the most important artifacts of the American Revolution; starting this month, just one of just 26 surviving copies of ...

IN THE BEGINNING, no one paid all that much attention to it—and, if they did, they were not particularly impressed. Now scriptural, the Declaration of Independence’s most famous sentence—“We hold ...

WEST CHESTER — A spirited reading of the Declaration of Independence took place Tuesday at the Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center. Twenty community members solemnly, and with much emotion, read the ...

The copy of one of the nation's foundational documents almost never sees the light of day. The museum is making an exception ...

They stood together in defiance of King George III. They're together still, buried below a monument honoring their courage.