The Declaration of Independence
Questions where the Declaration's principles and grievances are cited directly.
8 questions · Read at the National Archives
- Immigration & Border SecurityWhat the Bible Says About Immigrants and ForeignersThe Bible commands love and just treatment of immigrants and foreigners more frequently than nearly any other obligation.
- Immigration & Border SecurityWhat the Founding Documents Say About ImmigrationThe founding documents are clearer about immigration than the contemporary debate suggests: the Declaration listed obstruction of immigration as a tyranny…
- Voting Rights & ElectionsDoes Gerrymandering Align with Founding Principles?Religious traditions condemn systems designed to predetermine outcomes — and gerrymandering is precisely such a system.
- Religion & JudgmentThe Core Teaching Across Religions: Lift Others UpReligious traditions that disagree about almost everything else agree on the moral center: lift others up, do not tear them down.
- War Powers & Foreign Policy'America First' as a Foreign Policy DoctrinePutting your own people first is a duty every government and every faith tradition affirms.
- Cultural Institutions & Public MemoryRenaming Lake Ontario "Lake America"Erasing a 400-year-old Indigenous place name to punish a trading partner: what religious teachings and the founding framework say about names, memory, and grievance.
- Direct Democracy & Voter WillOhio Legislators Overriding Voter-Approved Marijuana LegalizationReligious traditions hold that authority is legitimate only insofar as it serves those who granted it.
- Polarizing Ideologies & Movements'America First' as a Movement and IdeologyReligious traditions affirm that nations have particular obligations to their own people — that part of America First is unobjectionable.