Reason

What the Declaration of Independence Said and Meant

[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 ...
The Heritage Foundation

The Confident Mind of the Declaration

There is confidence in the Declaration of Independence and the arguments made by the patriots in the years leading up to 1776. Leading loyalists or new Whigs warned of dreadful consequences that would ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

On Independence Day, we deserve a president who governs by founding principles | Opinion

President Trump's actions in office are seen as violating the Declaration of Independence's core principles. Trump's approach to governing is compared to King George III, prioritizing a "unitary ...
The Atlantic

Whose Independence?

When Thomas Jefferson was chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence, he had an exceedingly difficult task ahead of him. The 33-year-old planter, who had left law practice just before Britain’s ...