The Declaration of Independence

Written to proclaim America’s right to become a separate nation, the Declaration of Independence advanced principles presented as sacred truths that changed the world, led successive generations of Americans to create what is described as the most open society in the history of mankind, inspired more than one hundred nations to adopt similar principles in their own declarations of independence, and appeared in its first newspaper printing in the Pennsylvania Evening Post on July 6, 1776.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States