The Declaration, dated at the top in big letters, "July 4, 1776," is the reason we celebrate Independence Day. And in simpler terms, it is America’s birth certificate, with all sorts of copies, old ...

The debate over removing the words “socialist” and “secular” from the Preamble has come up twice in the last 10 years. Both ...

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.

Alarmed by the policies of President Donald Trump, millions turned out last month for protests around the United States and overseas. Mindful of next year's 250th anniversary of American independence, ...

Chandigarh: After letters from two MPs to the vice-president of India, opposition from political leaders including Punjab ...

The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...

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 ...

It's worth revering not just the document itself, but the men of consequence who made American independence a reality.

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 ...

The RSS’s demand to remove socialism and secularism from the Preamble of the Constitution is a calculated move to undermine ...