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Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be - from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself became sanctified.
Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament; the great difficulty in making the decision for Independence; the influence of Paine's Common Sense, which shifted the terms of debate; and the political maneuvers that allowed Congress to make the momentous decision.
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American Scripture: How America Declared Its Independence From Britain
1999, Pimlico
Paperback
- Reissue edition
071266520X 9780712665209
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American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
May 26, 1998, Vintage
Paperback
in English
- 1st Vintage Books Ed edition
0679779086 9780679779087
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American scripture: making the Declaration of Independence
1997, Knopf, Distributed by Random House, Inc.
in English
- 1st ed.
0679454926 9780679454922
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American scripture: making the Declaration of Independence
1997, Knopf, Distributed by Random House, Inc.
in English
- 1st ed.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-285) and index.
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