250 years of Declaration of Independence: America still disputes its words

Two centuries and a half after the US Declaration of Independence was adopted, Americans continue to dispute how to interpret its key phrases. The document offers no ready answers to 21st-century problems, but provides language that politicians, lawyers, and citizens use to describe and resolve them. Ongoing debates concern equality, human rights, and limits on government power.

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