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Clarence Thomas’ view of the Declaration can help America recover its founding purpose

The Declaration of Independence is not just the nation’s birth certificate. It is the statement of national purpose

By Scott Douglas Gerber Fox News

Published June 15, 2026 5:00am EDT

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As America marks its 250th anniversary next month, the nation finds itself in a moment of deep civic uncertainty. Americans sense that something essential is slipping away — a shared understanding of who we are and what we stand for.

Our universities now debate whether equality is a universal truth or merely a product of its time. Public institutions hesitate to defend the natural‑rights philosophy that justified the American Revolution. Even the idea of a common national creed feels fragile.

Yet amid this cultural confusion, one Supreme Court justice has spent more than three decades insisting that the Declaration of Independence still means exactly what it says — and that the country cannot survive without its moral framework.

PROTECTING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN OUR 250TH YEAR

Justice Clarence Thomas, now the Court’s second‑longest‑serving member, has long........

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