American Soul (eBook, ePUB)

The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence
Redaktion: Dyer, Justin Buckley

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Declaration of Independence has been the subject of competing interpretations since its adoption by the Continental Congress on the Fourth of July 1776, and for nearly two and a half centuries the political ideas expressed in its preamble have inspired reform movements both at home and abroad. From the early debates on the nature of the American Republic to abolitionism, progressivism, the civil rights movement, and contemporary debates about American economic and foreign policy, the Declaration is, as it has been, a vibrant and dynamic, though perennially disputed, source of American ideals. The present volume brings together a variety of speeches and writings related to the contested meaning and legacy of the Declaration of Independence, and the various documents assembled together demonstrate how competing interpretations of the Declaration have shaped, and been shaped by, political conflict in America. The Declaration is perhaps our "national soul," as Charles Sumner wrote in 1860, but Americans have rarely spoken of it with one voice. American Soul: The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence paints, with broad strokes, a picture of the debates that have shaped a nation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442211483
• Artikelnr.: 37908679

Autorenporträt

Edited by Justin Buckley Dyer - Foreword by David L. Boren

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Part I: The Declaration and the American Founding Chapter 1: Continental Congress
The Declaration of Independence (1776) Chapter 2: Thomas Jefferson
Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence (1776) Chapter 3: John Adams
Letters to Abigail (1776) Chapter 4: Jeremy Bentham
A Short Review of the Declaration (1826) Chapter 5: Thomas Jefferson
The American Mind (1826) Chapter 6: James Wilson
Popular Sovereignty (1787) Chapter 7: Daniel Webster
Keeping the Revolution (1802: Chapter 8: Lemuel Shaw
The American and French Revolutions (1815) Chapter 9: John Quincy Adams
American Principles (1821) Chapter 10: Thomas Jefferson
Fifty Years Later (1826) Chapter 11: William Wirt
The Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams (1826) Part II: The Declaration in a House Divided Chapter 12: "A Great Number of Blackes
" Petition for Freedom (1777) Chapter 13: Luther Martin
The Constitution and Slavery (1788) Chapter 14: William Lloyd Garrison
Republican Consistency! (1838) Chapter 15: John Quincy Adams
Amistad Argument (1841) Chapter 16: John C. Calhoun
The Cause of the Present Crisis (1848) Chapter 17: Frederick Douglass
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852) Chapter 18: Republican National Convention
Party Platform (1856) Chapter 19: Chief Justice Roger Taney
The Dred Scott Decision (1857) Chapter 20: Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
Debate on the Dred Scott Decision (1858) Chapter 21: Alexander Stephens
The Chief Cornerstone (1861) Chapter 22: Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address (1863) Chapter 23: United States Congress
Reconstructing America (1864-1870) Part III: The Declaration in the Modern World Chapter 24: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Seneca Falls Declaration (1848) Chapter 25: National Woman Suffrage Association
Declaration of the Rights of Women (1876) Chapter 26: Carrie Chapmen Catt
The Inevitability of Women's Suffrage (1917) Chapter 27: Woodrow Wilson
What is Progress? (1912) Chapter 28: Calvin Coolidge
Speech on the Fourth of July (1926) Chapter 29: Franklin Roosevelt
Commonwealth Club Address (1932) Chapter 30: Thurgood Marshall
Speech at the Bicentennial (1987) Chapter 31: Ronald Reagan
The Sanctity of Human Life (1984) Chapter 32: George W. Bush
America's Work in the World (2003) Chapter 33: Barack Obama
A More Perfect Union (2008)