American Independence and the Meaning of Liberty

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: American Independence and the Meaning of Liberty

On Thursday 04 July 1776—249 years ago today—the Continental Congress of the not-yet-existing United States approved the Declaration of Independence, which had been submitted two days previously. Today we celebrate this anniversary of the United States of America, which Thomas Jefferson imagined as an “Empire of Liberty,” but what did liberty mean for the Founding Fathers, and what does it mean for us?

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