The original version of the Declaration of Independence is very faded and displayed in the Archives' building. On the version hanging in the White House, according to the images posted ...

Abraham Lincoln said that the Declaration of Independence was “an ‘apple of gold’ to us. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it.

The Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution of the United States (1787) were both signed in this building in Philadelphia. The universal principles of freedom and democracy set forth ...