Roberts' year-end report on the federal judiciary includes some notable statements about the Declaration and its relevance to constitutional interpretation and judicial review. In his year-end report ...

[This year, my annual post celebrating the Fourth of July is drawn from a chapter of Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People, and from a short essay on the ...

Are you gearing up for next summer’s semiquincentennial — the 250th anniversary — of our nation’s birth? You should be. So, too, especially, should teachers and students during the new school year ...

There is no time when the Declaration of Independence‘s true meaning is not worthy of deep reflection. But certainly this Independence Day, which marks the beginning of a year of celebrating the 250th ...

Humans have produced some great sentences over the years, such as this one from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the ...

They launched a bold experiment to create a new nation where the government answered to the people, not the other way around. The experiment was built on a few core principles — human dignity, the ...

As we approach next year’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we should better understand, be grateful for, and celebrate “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Referring to the ...

When Thomas Jefferson was chosen to draft the Declaration of Independence, he had an exceedingly difficult task ahead of him. The 33-year-old planter, who had left law practice just before Britain’s ...

Volunteers hold a large American flag on the beach in front of the Hotel del Coronado in 2022. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) For a lot of us, this Fourth of July feels impossible to ...