Roberts' year-end report on the federal judiciary includes some notable statements about the Declaration and its relevance to ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Walter Isaacson explained why the first sentence in the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence is important. Author Walter Isaacson ...

The preamble to the Declaration of Independence is known to most Americans. I thought I was very familiar with this important document but ... This is the time for Americans to review the Declaration ...

As is tradition, National Public Radio on July 4 tweeted the Declaration of Independence—this time with footnotes to place the document in some historical context. In response, conservatives are ...

The United States has never fully lived up to its promise, but if the promise of America is embodied anywhere, it is in Jefferson’s famous preamble. Historians believe that Jefferson understood the ...

The Preamble to the Declaration of Independence states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable ...

In his annual report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice keyed in on the Declaration of Independence’s resilience ...

When the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in 1775, it was far from clear that the delegates would pass a resolution to separate from Great Britain. To persuade them, someone needed ...

Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence. It wasn’t widely known that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence until a quarter century later when he stood for ...

I am sad to see so many editorials and statements in the Idaho Statesman that show a lack of understanding by our citizens as to what their rights are and they seem unaware which quote comes from ...

Members of the Tuscaloosa County Bar Association gathered June 30 on the front steps of the Tuscaloosa County Courthouse for the group’s annual reading of the Declaration of Independence. The reading ...

On this day in 1743, Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell, VA. Here is an excerpt from Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of the People describing his writing of the ...