Gorsuch Marks 250th Anniversary, Tying 1776 Ideals to America’s Future
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 5
Gorsuch Marks 250th Anniversary, Tying 1776 Ideals to America’s Future
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 5
Summary
Neil Gorsuch used the Declaration of Independence’s 250th anniversary to argue that America’s founding principles still shape the country’s future, calling that enduring force the "founders’ fire."
The Supreme Court justice said that spirit combines bold vision, risk-taking and individual liberty, and that it underpins what he described as American exceptionalism from the frontier era to modern innovation.
Gorsuch pointed to two founding gifts: constitutional patent protections dating to the 1790 Patent Act and the Declaration’s guarantee of the pursuit of happiness, which he said fuel invention and personal choice.
He tied those ideas to immigration and entrepreneurship, citing figures from Andrew Carnegie to Elon Musk and Jensen Huang as examples of how newcomers have extended that founding legacy.