Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine, delivered her famous Declaration of Conscience speech on June 1, 1950, on the floor of ...

Maine, delivered her famous Declaration of Conscience speech on June 1, 1950, on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Here are some ...

Mecklenburg, North Carolina, is celebrating its own Declaration of Independence claiming it was signed a year before all the American colonies split from British rule.

Here's a controversy that goes back to the American Revolution. Mecklenburg County in North Carolina claims that 250 years ago this week, its people became the first colonists to declare ...