In 1776, Americans rebelled against a tyrant and stood for liberty and self-rule, laying the foundation for a system of limited government.

After years of neglect and abuse by a distant king in London, the colonists chose rebellion over submission.

They launched a bold experiment to create a new nation where the government answered to the people, not the other way around.

The experiment was built on a few core principles — human dignity, the rule of law, freedom, opportunity, civic duty, and limited government.

The Declaration of Independence clearly expresses those principles, laying out the philosophical case for limited government and establishing three key ideas at the core of the American experiment.

Idea 1: Limited Government Policy and the Declaration of Independence

The best explanation of why the colonists rebelled was written by Thomas Jefferson himself. He wrote in the Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

These words changed........

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