On July 4, 1776, 245 years ago, our Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. It was on that sacred day, in that charter, that the foundation for our country’s philosophy was laid and the principles that would inform our system of government was forever enshrined. It read, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights,...