The Declaration of Independence was approved on July 4, 1776, dissolving political ties with Great Britain. The Declaration outlines the philosophy that governments derive their power from the consent ...

The Declaration of Independence painting by John Trumbull, as used in PBS's "The American Revolution." Study of government in America and her states begins with visiting our founding documents. That ...

WEST CHESTER — A spirited reading of the Declaration of Independence took place Tuesday at the Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center. Twenty community members solemnly, and with much emotion, read the ...

The primary obligation of any government, the Declaration of Independence tells us in its famous second paragraph, is the “safety and happiness” of its citizens. The necessity of securing safety is ...

Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence on the afternoon of July 4, 1776. What happened next? A little-known sequence of events tells the story. It speaks volumes about the ...

There are many reasons one might come to love one’s country. It first appears in the connection to place, a bond to a physical location, usually associated with where one grew up. It extends from ...

Nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States of America will you find the word democracy. James Madison was the primary author of the Constitution and is often ...

The original printing is just one of 26 known remaining copies, and one of three located west of the Appalachian Mountains.