The actual details of history demonstrate noble, freedom-loving motivations in the U.S. founders that went far beyond any economic interest or concern.

The Declaration of Independence has some notes about “the Right of the People to alter or to abolish” its existing government ...

Answer: A. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. George Washington was in New York City preparing the city’s defense on July 4. On ...

A document beginning, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident,’ meaning obvious, kindles something new: The American spirit.

The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...

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Every word matters in critical legal documents, and no language is more pored over and parsed for meaning than that used in our U.S. Constitution.

A little-known lab at the University of Iowa as a special link to one of America's founding documents.The Center of the Book ...

A rare broadside of the "Declaration of Independence, July 1776, on view at Seth Kaller Inc., Historic Documents & Legacy ...

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

The preamble of India's Constitution defines it as a socialist and secular republic, but the RSS— a nationalist group close ...

Five Choctaw constitutional amendments are on a July 12, 2025, ballot alongside the nation's regularly scheduled Tribal ...