US turns 250: What is the Declaration of Independence? Is it a symbol of freedom or America's greatest paradox?

If you were to believe Hollywood, the United States Declaration of Independence is less a founding political text and more the ultimate high-stakes heist target. When Nicolas Cage’s character, Benjamin Franklin Gates, famously declared in the 2004 cinematic classic National Treasure that he was going to steal the Declaration of Independence — complete with invisible

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