Used, Abused, and Sidelined : Debating the Declaration.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stuckey, Mary E.

Series:

Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

United States.

Declarations of independence.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

United States--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This volume explores the evolving significance of the United States Declaration of Independence, addressing its dual role as a symbol of liberation and a tool for both regressive and progressive politics. Through essays by various scholars, the book analyzes the Declaration's historical reception, its influence on sovereignty and equality, and its cultural and political implications. Topics include its impact on abolitionist movements, indigenous sovereignty, civil rights struggles, and its use in contemporary debates about democracy and inclusion. The book critically examines the document's promises and limitations, questioning its relevance as its 250th anniversary approaches. Intended for academics and students in political science, history, and rhetoric, the work provides a comprehensive view of the Declaration's enduring legacy and contested meanings. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

COVER Front

Copyright Page

Table of contents

acknowledgments

introduction

Chapter 1: an appeal to the tribunal of the world: the reception of the timely and timeless messages of the declaration in 1776 and beyond

Chapter 2: "an impudent, false, and atrocious proclamation": loyalist critique and the limits of dissent in colonial america

Chapter 3: a declaration of style: masculinity's enduring resonance

Chapter 4: the antebellum declaration: abolition, secession, and revolution

Chapter 5: from declaration to self- determination: decolonial shifts in indigenous rhetorical authority

Chapter 6:declaring economic independence: argentina, juan domingo perón, and political time

Chapter 7: sovereignty reimagined: tropes, sovereign citizen discourses, and the declaration of independence

Chapter 8 : we are the true americans:the declaration of independence and radical, anti- capitalist, working- class movements

Chapter 9: the declaration of independence and civil rights: the long movement and countermovement

Chapter 10: from black lives matter to the syrian revolution: how do "we the people"render our struggles visible?

Chapter 11: a morally grounded ideograph: václav havel's constitutive rhetoric in velvet revolutioon

Chapter 12: "that was the first time in history that any one bothered to write that down":mythologizing the declaration of independence in the west wing

Chapter 13: proximate deliberation and the 1776 moment: the proud boys' and oath keepers' use of the declaration of independence

Chapter 14: from cultural artifact to culture war: the declaration of independence and the fight for control of the us civics classroom

Chapter 15: borrowing trouble? the declaration's threshold of suffering and care

index.

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ISBN:

0-271-09946-1

0-271-09947-X

OCLC:

1528629706