The Declaration of Independence

British researchers have announced the discovery of a rare original copy of America's Declaration of Independence ...
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Katrina McClintock, a spokeswoman at the National Archives, said Thursday that a researcher accidentally discovered the "Dunlap print," named after a printer, several months ago. ...
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The prints, known collectively as the Dunlap Broadside, were the first copies of the Declaration of Independence. They were printed by John Dunlap of Philadelphia and distributed to political and military leaders, including George Washington, and dispatched throughout the colonies to be read to the public.
--Gregory Katz, with Michael Bushnell, Rare copy of Declaration of Independence found, Associated Press, July 3, 2009 (via JSOnline)


Liveblogging the Continental Congress July 4, 1776 by Rick Moran, RightWing Nuthouse, July 4, 2007 (via Kathryn Jean Lopez at The Corner)


Independence Day Address, by Robert H. Jackson, Attorney General of the United States, Washington, D.C., July 4, 1941


The Declaration of Independence in American, I. Specimens of the American Vulgate, The American Language (1921), by H. L. Mencken, Bartleby


Claremont Institute


Liberty Library