‘We hold these truths’: Viewing the Declaration of Independence, visitors reflect on America at 250

By GARY FIELDS

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s 250th anniversary arrives at a time of deep political divisions and, in some quarters, heightened anxiety over whether representative government in the world’s oldest democracy can be sustained.

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