Reason

What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant

[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...
Reason

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 constitutional interpretation and judicial review. In his year-end report ...
The Daily Signal

Why the Declaration of Independence Still Matters

Mark Guiney is the manager of video production in Digital Productions at The Heritage Foundation. He also produces and creates video for The Daily Signal. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, ...
NPR

A July 4 NPR Tradition: A Reading Of The Declaration Of Independence

Editor's note on July 8, 2022: This story quotes the U.S. Declaration of Independence — a document that contains offensive language about Native Americans, including a racial slur. In 1988, Morning ...
Daily Press

Remembering a long-overlooked signer of the Declaration of Independence

Today marks the 247th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, and everyone remembers Thomas Jefferson, the author and a signer. But few recall another signer: George Wythe. “He ...