They were making a bolder claim that became the foundation of the American Dream: that people could build meaningful lives if government protected liberty and then got out of the way. That idea still ...

[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 ...

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 ...

There’s a key line of the Declaration of Independence, whose passage we mark on the Glorious Fourth of July, now 249 years later: how the people of these United States “are endowed by their Creator ...

See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google We Americans like ...

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Most Americans are familiar with these words, even if they don’t know that they are contained in the introduction to the Declaration of Independence, the ...

Bonnie Boswell goes in search of people breathing life into American ideals. How do we pursue happiness in a world filled with divisiveness? Bonnie Boswell travels across the country to talk with ...

The 114 th General Assembly has adjourned for 2025, and it was a very successful year. We have taken measures for Tennessee to be a better place to live, work and to raise a family. These are some of ...