The words of the Founding Fathers echoed around the upper rotunda of the Bonneville County Courthouse on Friday as local community leaders joined in a public reading of the Declaration of Independence ...

The Declaration of Independence was approved on July 4, 1776, dissolving political ties with Great Britain. The Declaration outlines the philosophy that governments derive their power from the consent ...

Here’s what the Civic Thought & Leadership Initiative is doing this year to celebrate 250 years of the Declaration of Independence — and how you can carry the lantern of American unity forward.