The Declaration of Independence

i'm fascinated by this. What does it tell us about being an american that there's something in the back of our h i hate this term, but collective memory, or collective imagination, or whatever? As a nation that understands that our origin is an act of revolution, and that our kind of founders were radicals. So i always look at it like this, calism, even the kind that has rejected America, in some ways, is rooted in an american tradition. And that is rooted in some ways in the declaration of independence. We're the only country, that blake, were the first country, i should say, that was founded on ike, on an idea