The primary obligation of any government, the Declaration of Independence tells us in its famous second paragraph, is the “safety and happiness” of its citizens. The necessity of securing safety is ...

The Declaration of Independence, approved July 4, 1776, dissolved ties with Great Britain and established natural rights.

IN THE BEGINNING, no one paid all that much attention to it—and, if they did, they were not particularly impressed. Now scriptural, the Declaration of Independence’s most famous sentence—“We hold ...

The Declaration of Independence painting by John Trumbull, as used in PBS's "The American Revolution." Study of government in America and her states begins with visiting our founding documents. That ...