While John Adams called for a declaration of independence in the Continental Congress, a down-on-his-luck Englishman named Thomas Paine sounded the clarion call for revolution in January 1776 with ...

Known now as a day of patriotism and enjoying time off from work, the Fourth of July began the journey to becoming a ...

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

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

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The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...

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 ...

It's the 249th birthday of the United States. And as Americans begin to prepare for our nation's grand semiquincentennial ...

U ntil the founding of the United States of America, the nations of the West did not have to set forth the reasons for their existence and the basis of their authority. Land and blood established ...

Editor's note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 248 years since the United States parted with Great Britain — we present the nation's founding document, the Declaration of ...

Two historic copies of the Declaration of Independence are on display temporarily inside the New Hampshire State House, where ...