In today’s episode you’ll hear some of what Thomas Jefferson called “an expression of the American mind.” These are principles of liberty and God-given rights that justified and compelled the colonists to declare their independence from tyranny at the risk of their lives. They are principles that are still true today. We must know them so that we can defend and sustain them.

In today's episode, I speak about the importance of reading and knowing the Declaration of Independence ourselves and not just consuming the critiques of others.

Do you know why the Declaration was written? Do you know what principles of government it teaches or what it states about human nature? Do you know in what capacities it mentions God? Have you thought about what it might mean today … if it says anything about today? And about how we ought to run our government, and who we ought to elect, and what laws we ought to denounce or support?

In today's episode, learn when the real Independence Day was and who the original signers of the Declaration of Independence were.

Part one of a series of bite-sized gems discussing one of the most important, historic documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence.