The Declaration of Independence’s promise of equality has had ongoing challenges, but it is our American inheritance.

John Adams, for what it's worth, reportedly turned down invitation to July 4 events as he still believed it should be ...

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.

As knowledge about the Constitution ebbs, so does allegiance to it. And because the Constitution was designed in significant part to keep partisan passions at bay, constitutional drift fuels partisan ...

What the Olive Branch Petition suggests about the founders — and Americans today.

Unrestricted birthright citizenship — the characteristically New World notion that being born on a country’s soil is enough ...