We celebrate Thomas Jefferson as a great American patriot, largely for his role in drafting the Declaration of Independence ...

The expansiveness of the concept helps explain its endurance.

In political history, there is undeniably no greater sentence than the following, taken from the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ...

Some of the founders condemned slavery and were willing to give up the benefits of white supremacy. On this July 4, it’s ...

As the US celebrates 250 years, the Declaration of Independence has been curiously absent. Yet its language on the consent of the governed is more relevant than ever ...

What exactly does ‘all men are created equal’ mean in the Declaration of Independence? I used to think the answer was obvious; it was self-evident. But it’s not, at least not in today’s political ...

The most famous phrase of the Declaration of Independence contains something of a contradiction, or at least an inconsistency. Happily so for Christians. There is a theological claim hiding there. Not ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Elizabeth Freeman was an enslaved person living in Massachusetts when the Declaration ...

Historians and scholars continue to debate Thomas Jefferson's original intent behind the phrase "all men are created equal." Some scholars argue Jefferson's words were meant to include Black people, ...

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