Created 1776, The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. The Declaration ...

That constitution put governing power in the hands of the people, creating a legislature and executive council that would be ...

The 13 American colonies embraced government 'of laws, not of men,' and they strove to limit the power of future presidents.

As America turns 250, we trace the triumphs, contradictions and arguments that shaped the world’s first liberal republic And ...

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

(THE CONVERSATION) Right around the Fourth of July, Americans pay renewed attention to the country’s crucial founding document, the Declaration of Independence. Whether Republican or Democrat or ...

The Declaration of Independence reaffirmed the right to self-determination—and the uniquely American practice of keeping and ...

There’s no need to pull a Nicolas Cage this time. A rare printing of the Declaration of Independence will hit the auction block on January 24 at Sotheby’s. Known as the Essex Broadside, the document ...

On July 4, 1776, two days after the Continental Congress voted to declare the United State's Independence, the Declaration of Independence was ratified. It took nearly a month for most of the ...

Reiterating the liberal ideals behind the revolution may be tricky when they are out of favour in the White House ...

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the ...