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Why the 'pursuit of happiness,' 250 years later, remains the Declaration of Independence's most novel phrase
The primary obligation of any government, the Declaration of Independence tells us in its famous second paragraph, is the “safety and happiness” of its citizens. The necessity of securing safety is ...
More than two centuries after July 4, 1776, the men who signed the Declaration of Independence — especially John Hancock — are famous. But the woman whose name also appears on the document, or at ...
America’s 250th anniversary arrives at a time of deep political divisions and, in some quarters, heightened anxiety over whether representative government in the world’s oldest democracy can be ...
Leaders of South Carolina’s three branches of government commemorated a non-partisan event — the 250th year of the ...
CPKC celebrates USA’s 250th anniversary with locomotive #1776 in Old Glory colors, featuring Declaration & Constitution ...
The copy of one of the nation's foundational documents almost never sees the light of day. The museum is making an exception ...
Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence on the afternoon of July 4, 1776. What happened next? A little-known sequence of events tells the story. It speaks volumes about the ...
The Sioux City Public Museum will continue the study of the Declaration of Independence with the Declaration Book Club, a ...
Chris Leonard, left, and Carmel Patrick, right, at last year’s Fourth of July event in Schenectady. Leonard and Patrick were the driving forces behind organizing the ceremony in Schenectady. Nearly ...
John Dunlap, the Tyrone native who was the printer of the first copies of the Declaration of Independence, is celebrated in a new An Post stamp.
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