Tim Kaine criticized the founding principle of God-given rights as troubling during a Senate hearing, prompting Ted Cruz and ...

The New York Public Library has one of Thomas Jefferson's handwritten copies of the Declaration of Independence in its collection. Jonathan Blanc / New York Public Library A few days after the ...

A few days after the Continental Congress officially adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat down and started writing. The 33-year-old Virginia statesman dashed ...

As part of the lead up to the nation's 250th birthday (semiquincentennial), famed Louisiana author Walter Isaacson is ...

Who needs John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, or any other Founding Father when we have Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) – the newest wannabe Framer. In remarks before a recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee ...

COMMENTARY: Sen. Tim Kaine’s declaration of dependence on our political leaders misses the point of America’s founding: ...

When Senator Kaine recoiled from the idea of rights endowed by a Creator, he was channeling a temptation as old as politics itself: to make government the supreme source of human freedom.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain ...

The Declaration of Independence is a significant historical document as it has served as inspiration for other countries' independence and different groups' missions, while also making t ...

Whereas Tim Kaine hears someone say our rights come from God and thinks of the writings and thought of, say, the Aytollah Khomeini, the philosophical basis of the idea is found in the work of John ...

Senator Timothy “Tim” Kaine, a Democrat of Virginia, is calling “extremely troubling” the assertion that rights come from ...