It lists three such rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It does not elaborate, but each implies ...

Eight days ago, the Roberts court handed the Trump administration its first major loss on the interim docket in several ...

Roberts used his last two year-end reports to warn about the dangers of artificial intelligence and intimidating judges. But ...

After a year of concerns about attacks on judges and the rule of law, Chief Justice John Roberts said in the nation's legal ...

There are many reasons one might come to love one’s country. It first appears in the connection to place, a bond to a physical ...

When the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in 1775, it was far from clear that the delegates would pass a resolution to separate from Great Britain. To persuade them, someone needed ...

In his annual report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice keyed in on the Declaration of Independence’s resilience ...

The committee assigned to draft the Declaration of Independence, from left: Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston and John Adams. Currier & Ives image, photo by ...

Talks, performances and rare artifacts explore how Martin Luther King Jr. engaged with America’s founding document.

The manuscript was discovered by two researchers in Sussex, England. The Sussex Declaration, the only other manuscript copy of the Declaration of Independence besides the 1776 version at the National ...

Last year, and in 2017, I put up posts about the universalist principles of the Declaration of Independence, and their continuing relevance today. The points made are no less relevant this year. So, ...

Joseph Postell is associate professor of politics at Hillsdale College and a visiting fellow in the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is the author of the ...