In every generation, the Declaration of Independence has stood for a more expansive promise of freedom and equality.

In 1776, revolutionaries destroyed their old Colonial governments. New constitutions called new states into being. In 1787, those new states ratified a new federal Constitution and made a new nation.

La Déclaration d'indépendance et la Constitution des États-Unis ont été toutes deux signées dans ce bâtiment de Philadelphie, respectivement en 1776 et 1787. Les principes universels de liberté et de ...