Eric Slauter on The Declaration’s Promises

Podcast: cmdX anDre Articles "Law of WE "podcast · ¶:MeŸmoE CheckMate |cdmXⁿ0

Opublikowano: 2026-06-18

The National Constitution Center recently published The Promise of America: Reflections on Our Enduring Ideals (Simon & Schuster), a keepsake collection of essays bringing together leading thinkers from across perspectives to reflect on the ideals at the heart of the American experiment and what those principles have meant across generations of American life. In this episode, Professor Eric Slauter discusses his essay, “The Declaration’s Promises,” which explores how the Declaration of Independence evolved from a justification of America’s separation from the British Empire into a global charter of liberty. As Slauter writes, in 1776, “very few in the newly United States besides a small c...