The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation’s people asserting their right to choose their own government. Even after the initial battles in the Revolutionary War broke ...
In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.
On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted a document introducing a new nation to the world, composed of 13 “free and independent states.” This Declaration of Independence, read to crowds ...
The Declaration of Independence’s 250th anniversary in 2026 is certain to be a time of national reflection. Americans tend to look to the Constitution to assess whether the nation is living up to its ...
Danielle Allen discusses the meaning of the principle of equality in the Declaration and its evolution over time through the Constitution and the law. Few words are more famous than these: “We hold ...
On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from Great Britain.
The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. We now credit Thomas Jefferson with the Declaration’s authorship, but that was not the case on that momentous ...
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