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 ...
Longhorns WireOpinion

What the Declaration of Independence still teaches us | Opinion

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

The Declaration of Independence still defines America’s purpose, writes Jon Meacham

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 ...
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 ...