America's Birth Certificate Story aired: Tuesday, July 04, 2006
The Declaration of Independence declared individual rights, but first and foremost it was a coming out party for the United States; a grand entrance onto the international stage.
According to author and Harvard professor David Armitage Americans have never made a systematic attempt to trace the afterlife of what came to be called American scripture. And that's what he does in an upcoming book called "The Declaration of Independence: A Global History."
