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Opinion: Capt. Kirk Was Right -- Read the Constitution

It's been amusing to read the reaction in some quarters to the House Republicans' decision to read the entire U.S. Constitution at the start of the new Congress. Last week, Washington Post columnist and blogger Ezra Klein called it a "gimmick." Post blogger Greg Sargent added his two cents, calling it "a cheap way of...

Fix Appears in Declaration of Independence

(July 3) -- With one smudge of a feathered fountain pen back in 1776, American history changed forever. Chemists and archivists analyzing the U.S. Declaration of Independence have long speculated about cross-outs and smudges in Thomas Jefferson's original rough draft of the document. One smudge was much more aggressively...

US Archivist Preps for July 4 on 'Real' Independence Day

WASHINGTON (July 2) -- David Ferriero stands inside a chilly vault deep within the National Archives building here and looks on as an archivist reads from an original resolution passed 234 years ago today by the Continental Congress: Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent...

Declaration of Independence Text, Retooled for the Web

On June 10, 1776, the Continental Congress appointed a committee made up of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman to draft a declaration of independence from England. Jefferson was the one who actually wrote the declaration, (taking his sweet time) from June 11 to June 28,...

Background on Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.

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