Government overreach challenges America's founding principles of equality and freedom, echoing concerns from the Declaration of Independence that inspired civil rights leaders.

Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of the Meidas Touch media outlet, wrote: "Trump has absolutely no clue what the Declaration of Independence is or what it says." Jay Bookman, a journalist who ...

We’re republishing the text of the Declaration of Independence in full today on America’s 249th birthday. In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of ...

Douglass and Lincoln alike clearly took inspiration from the Declaration of Independence—America's first Emancipation Proclamation. Both were committed to realizing the promises of 1776, nearly ...