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What the Declaration of Independence does – and doesn’t – say about God

  • Written by Thomas Tweed, Professor Emeritus of American Studies and History, University of Notre Dame
imageA Croome & Brightly engraving shows John Nixon reading the Declaration of Independence after its passage in Philadelphia.From The New York Public Library via Wikimedia Commons

On the Fourth of July 1776, the congressional delegates in Philadelphia adopted the Declaration of Independence, then ordered that it be widely “proclaimed.”...

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