[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...

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 ...

America’s 250th birthday is fast approaching, and it is a fitting time to recall the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. Congress approved the final wording of the document on July 4, 1776.

This is the final essay in a series on the Declaration of Independence, in recognition of its 250th anniversary. Most of the text of the Declaration of Independence addressed then-current events: the ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...