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July 2, 2009 | By Nathaniel Ward
The Real Meaning of July 4
What is the Fourth of July? Just a convenient summer holiday with barbecues and fireworks? Or is there a deeper meaning?
"The Fourth of July is a great opportunity to renew our dedication to the principles of liberty and equality enshrined in what Thomas Jefferson called 'the declaratory charter of our rights,'" writes Heritage scholar Matthew Spalding.
Chiefly the work of Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence was America's proclamation to the world "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." And it held that the purpose of government is to "secure these rights," rather than to determine what rights the people could enjoy.
» Learn more about the role of government by ordering your free Heritage Foundation Pocket Declaration of Independence and Constitution on AskHeritage.org. 
The Declaration of Independence marks our nation's conception of liberty. Its truths, grounded in a higher law and applied to all men, are "self-evident." President Abraham Lincoln once praised the document as an "abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times."
"What is revolutionary about the Declaration of Independence is not that a particular group of Americans declared their independence under particular circumstances," writes Spalding. "But that they did so by appealing to -- and promising to base their particular government on -- a universal standard of justice."
This universal standard of justice endures for all time and cannot be reversed or rewritten. In a speech marking the 150th anniversary of independence on July 5, 1926, President Calvin Coolidge elaborated this point:
About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If govern­ments derive their just powers from the con­sent of the governed, that is final.
His next point is a direct rebuke to the so-called "Progressives" -- those on the Left who believe their views are the next step in historical "progress":
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propo­sitions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress."
In a new report, Heritage's Julia Shaw elaborates on how Calvin Coolidge "is one of the most eloquent voices for the great and enduring principles expressed in our Declaration of Independence." Coolidge, the only President born on July 4, held views that "differed from those of the Progressives who dominated politics before and after the 1920s."
» Watch as Matt Spalding explains the dangers of progressivism on the Glenn Beck Show. 
In the midst of economic crises, massive government expansions and infringements upon basic human liberties, it is much too easy to forget the timeless truths so clearly articulated by our nation's Founders.
It is especially in trying times like these that our foundational principles, which have seen us through more challenging times before, must not be abandoned.
-- Amanda Reinecker

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