National Security: Constitution

Joe Boyles Guest Columnist In a few days, our nation will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of our founding, when the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. I have always referred to the Declaration as the ‘birth certificate’ of our country. Seven years later with the surrender at Yorktown and the signing of a treaty between Great Britain and the newly formed United States of America, independence was secured. Now came the difficult task