American soul : the contested legacy of the Declaration of Independence / edited with an introduction by Justin Buckley Dyer ; foreword by David L. Boren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dyer, Justin B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Declaration of Independence.

United States.

United States. Declaration of Independence--Criticism, Textual.

Physical Description:

xviii, 157 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2012]

Summary:

American Soul brings together a variety of primary source documents related to the contested meaning and legacy of the Declaration of Independence, and the various speeches and writings assembled together demonstrate how competing interpretations of the Declaration have shaped, and been shaped by, two and a half centuries of political conflict in America.

Contents:

Continental Congress, the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson, rough draft of the Declaration of Independence

John Adams, letters to Abigail

Jeremy Bentham, a short review of the Declaration

Thomas Jefferson, the American mind

James Wilson, popular sovereignty

Daniel Webster, keeping the revolution

Lemuel Shaw, the American and French revolutions

John Quincy Adams, American principles

Thomas Jefferson, fifty years later

William Wirt, the lives and characters of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

"A great number of blackes," petition for freedom

Luther Martin, the constitution and slavery

William Lloyd Garrison, republican consistency!

John Quincy Adams, Amistad argument

John C. Calhoun, the cause of the present crisis

Frederick Douglass, what to the slave is the Fourth of July?

Republican National Convention, party platform

Chief Justice Roger Taney, the Dred Scott Decision

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, debate on the Dred Scott Decision

Alexander Stephens, the chief cornerstone

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

United States Congress, reconstructing America (1864-1870)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, Seneca Falls Declaration

National Woman Suffrage Association, Declaration of the Rights of Women

Carrie Chapmen Catt, the inevitability of women's suffrage

Woodrow Wilson, what is progress?

Calvin Coolidge, speech on the Fourth of July

Franklin Roosevelt, Commonwealth Club Address

Thurgood Marshall, speech at the Bicentennial

Ronald Reagan, the sanctity of human life

George W. Bush, America's work in the world

Barack Obama, a more perfect union.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1442211466

9781442211469

9781442211483

1442211482

OCLC:

741103680

Publisher Number:

99946266858