An edition of Our Declaration
(2015)
Our Declaration
a reading of the Declaration of Independence in defense of equality
by Danielle S. Allen
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Our Declaration: a reading of the Declaration of Independence in defense of equality
2015
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Table of Contents
Part I. Origins
1. Night teaching
2. Patrimony
3. Loving democracy
4. Animating the Declaration
Part II. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
5. The writer
6. The politicos
7. The committee
8. The editors
9. The people
Part III. The art of democratic writing
10. On memos
11. On moral sense
12. On doing things wtih words
13. On words and power
Part IV. Reading the course of events
14. When in the course of human events...
15. Just another word for river
16. One people
17. We are your equals
18. An echo
Part V. Facing necessity
19. ...it becomes necessity...
20. The laws of nature
21. And nature's god
22. Kinds of necessity
Part VI. Matters of principle
23. We hold these truths...
24. Sounds bites
25. Sticks and stones
26. Self-interest?
27. Self-evidence
28. Magic tricks
29. The creator
30. Creation
31. Beautiful optimism
Part VII. Matters of fact
32. Prudence... 33. Dreary pessimism
34. Life's turning points
35. Tyranny
36. Facts?
37. Life histories
38. Plagues
39. Portrait of a tyrant
40. The thirteenth way of looking at a tyrant
41. The use and abuse of history
42. Dashboards
43. On potlucks
44. If actions speak louder than words...
45. Responsiveness
Part VIII. Drawing conclusions
46. We must, therefore, acquiesce...
47. Friends, enemies, and blood relations
48. On oath
49. Real equality
50. What's in a name?
Epilogue
Notes
Resources
Acknowledgments
Illustration credits
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-299) and index.
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