When the American colonists broke the bonds with England in 1776, our founders crafted a vision of liberty quite distinct from King George’s version of governance. The founders believed that ...
Declaration of Independence a good read Thank you for printing the entire Declaration of Independence in Friday's edition of The Republican. For most Americans, reading it is an option not often ...
Mistakes happen, whether in intelligence reports that may cause a war, in congressional statutes that could have ended health insurance for millions of Americans, or in a Declaration that could ...
Teaching the Declaration of Independence is about providing the next generation with the tools to maintain our self-governing ...
WASHINGTON — In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own. “Dissent," he said, ”is the very ...
I appreciated Dave Boe's effort to focus attention on the significance of the Declaration of Independence and its signers. Unfortunately, his June 30 “Local View” column, “ Consider our Founders, why ...
Thomas Jefferson's proposition, in the Declaration of Independence, that "all men are created equal" is a literary technique. Its truth, the proposed "idea" upon which a new nation was to be based, is ...