The Declaration of Independence was approved on July 4, 1776, dissolving political ties with Great Britain. The Declaration ...

Too often we tend to think that the Declaration of Independence was a creature which sprang to life between June 7, 1776, when Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced his resolution calling for ...

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 ...

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 University of Virginia will begin its celebration of the nation’s 250th birthday by sharing an original copy of the Declaration of Independence – a document found in an Albany, New York attic in ...

Our Long Train of AbusesOver a snowy winter weekend, I watched Ken Burns' The American Revolution. (And yes, if you're not already supporting your local PBS and NPR station, you should do that today).

America's 250th anniversary arrives at a time of deep political divisions and, in some quarters, heightened anxiety over whether representative government in the world's oldest democracy can be ...