American Soul : The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dyer, Justin Buckley, 1983-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Declaration of Independence.

United States.

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

United States. Declaration of Independence.

Local Subjects:

United States. Declaration of Independence.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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:

American Soul; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: The Declaration and the American Founding; 1 The Declaration of Independence; 2 Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence; 3 Letters to Abigail; 4 A Short Review of the Declaration; 5 The American Mind; 6 Popular Sovereignty; 7 Keeping the Revolution; 8 The American and French Revolutions; 9 American Principles; 10 Fifty Years Later; 11 The Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams; Part II: The Declaration in a House Divided; 12 Petition for Freedom; 13 The Constitution and Slavery

14 Republican Consistency!15 Amistad Argument; 16 The Cause of the Present Crisis; 17 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?; 18 Party Platform; 19 The Dred Scott Decision; 20 Debate on the Dred Scott Decision; 21 The Chief Cornerstone; 22 Gettysburg Address; 23 Reconstructing America; Part III: The Declaration in the Modern World; 24 Seneca Falls Declaration; 25 Declaration of the Rights of Women; 26 The Inevitability of Women's Suffrage; 27 What is Progress?; 28 Speech on the Fourth of July; 29 Commonwealth Club Address; 30 Speech at the Bicentennial of the Constitution

31 The Sanctity of Human Life32 America's Work in the World; 33 A More Perfect Union; Notes; Index; About the Author

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ISBN:

9781442211483

1283940620

1442211482