VIEWPOINT | Celebrating, redeeming solemn promises of our Declaration of Independence

Guest column by David Adler, The Alturas Institute

The Declaration of Independence, which Abraham Lincoln referred to as the “sheet anchor of the Republic,” set forth the proposition, as he said in the Gettysburg Address, that “the United States was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” The principle of equality, Lincoln admitted, was “aspirational.” Its …