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100 1 $aAllen, Danielle S.,$d1971-$eauthor.
245 10 $aOur Declaration :$ba reading of the Declaration of Independence in defense of equality /$cDanielle Allen.
264 1 $aNew York :$bLiveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company,$c2015.
264 4 $c©2014
300 $a315 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index.
505 0 $aPart 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 with 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.
520 $aFeatured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation's founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty.
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