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It's that time of year when we celebrate our Declaration of Independence. On this episode, we play an interview featuring well-known historian, scholar, and Heritage fellow Dr. Allen Guelzo.
At the Witherspoon Institute’s Public Discourse yesterday, I had an essay, “Declaration ... undergirds the Constitution itself: the Declaration of Independence. Alone on the modern Court ...
Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated -- both the ...
America’s founding documents are selling at the fastest rate since 2004, with the rising civic interest being attributed, in ...
As Julian P. Boyd, the founding editor of “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson,” pointed out, the Declaration of Independence “bore no necessary antagonism to the idea of kingship in general.” ...
The Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution aren't only being read in classrooms these days. Sales of the ...
Thomas Jefferson’s logic in the Declaration is admirably clear. Its major premise is: if certain conditions prevail, then ...
The content of the Declaration of Independence was not entirely original. In addition to borrowing from his own writing, Jefferson relied on other declarations and pamphlets of the time ...