The Docket: July 3, 2026
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A special edition of American Heroes highlights the founding principles that guide our work; a Massachusetts town warns against flying American flags weeks ahead of Independence Day; and PLF’s Brittany Hunter takes us on a journey through history: from Magna Carta to the Declaration.
Happy birthday, America!
American Heroes: A Special America 250 Edition
In this month’s episode of American Heroes, PLF’s Kathy Hoekstra brings together a quartet of PLF practice directors—representing Property Rights, Equality and Opportunity, Separation of Powers, and Environment and Natural Resources—to share their personal perspectives on the founding principles that guide our work.
Ahead of Independence Day, homeowners are warned against flying American flags
Few places in America did more to ignite the Revolution than Massachusetts. It was home to defining moments like the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
Yet just weeks before our country’s 250th birthday, one Massachusetts town began warning homeowners that flying American flags on their property could violate state and federal law.
Free to Flourish: Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday
As millions of Americans prepare to unfurl their flags and fire up their grills this weekend, it’s worth recognizing just how far we’ve come as a nation these past 250 years.
The collective knowledge of humanity is available at our fingertips. Once-devastating infections are now minor inconveniences. We heat and cool our homes at the turn of a dial, and clean water flows on demand.
As PLF’s Megan Jenkins reminds us in the latest edition of Free to Flourish: “It’s all thanks to innovators. Wildcatters and roughnecks. Farmers and fishermen. Coders and coal miners who have sacrificed to make our way of life possible.”
From Magna Carta to American independence
On the eve of America’s 250th birthday, it is worth remembering that the principles that shaped the American Founding were planted long before the first colonist arrived in America.
Now, eight centuries after the historic sealing of Magna Carta, the central struggle between government and the people remains unchanged. What the colonists inherited from the rebel barons has been handed down to us.
