The official document was finalized on July 4th. It took the delegates two days to draft, edit and approve the Declaration of Independence. The final version was sent to printer John Dunlap on ...

Our attempts to establish scientific proof can harden into dogma. The target of “statistical significance” leads some to ...

One Founding Father thought we were celebrating on the wrong day, but that hasn’t stopped Americans from pulling out all the stops on July 4.

When Jefferson wrote the draft of the Declaration of Independence, he had two documents next to him: a draft constitution of Virginia and the Virginia Declaration of Rights. The Virginia ...

Commissioned in 1817, the painting is titled "The Declaration of Independence" and depicts the presentation of Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence to the Second Continental ...

The document? A handwritten copy of an original draft of the Declaration of Independence, written in remarkably neat, decisive and legible cursive in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson. It read, in part ...

Third, America’s founding Declaration of Independence is the original source and legitimacy of people not tolerating tyranny, of the American people’s “unalienable rights,” and of “the ...

And, in his draft, not only do all persons have ... from the British government was the whole purpose of the Declaration of Independence. "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive ...

The Declaration of Independence is a formal document that ... depiction of the five-man drafting committee presenting their draft to Congress, and not the signing. The painting shows 42 of the ...