Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality - Hardcover

Our Declaration : a reading of the Declaration of Independence in defense of equality.

Zustand: as new. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 320 pp. Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-299) and index. - Part I. Origins -- Night teaching -- Patrimony -- Loving democracy -- Animating the Declaration -- Part II. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? -- The writer -- The politicos -- The Committee -- The editors -- The people -- Part III. The art of democratic writing -- On memos -- On moral sense -- On doing things with words -- On words and power -- Part IV. Reading the course of events -- When in the course of human events. -- Just another word for river -- One people -- We are your equals -- An echo -- Part V. Facing necessity -- .it becomes necessary. -- The laws of nature -- And nature's god -- Kinds of necessity -- Part VI. Matters of principle -- We hold these truths. -- Sound bites -- Sticks and stones -- Self-interest? -- Self-evidence -- Magic tricks -- The creator -- Creation -- Beautiful optimism -- Part VII. Matters of fact -- Prudence. -- Dreary pessimism -- Life's turning points -- Tyranny -- Facts? -- Life histories -- Plagues -- Portrait of a tyrant -- The thirteenth way of looking at a tyrant -- The use and abuse of history -- Dashboards -- On potlucks -- If actions speak louder than words. -- Responsiveness -- Part VIII. Drawing conclusions -- We must, therefore, acquiesce. -- Friends, enemies, and blood relations -- On oath -- Real equality -- What's in a name? Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780871406903. Keywords : RECHT, Artikel-Nr. 278218

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