American scripture

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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.

• Politics and government
• United States
• United states, declaration of independence
• United states, politics and government, 1775-1783
• History, 18th century
• History, 18th century--united states
• E221 .m24 1997
• E221 m217a 1997
• 973.3/13

Baskılar ve ISBN

1999

Pimlico · 315 sayfa
ISBN 9780712665209

May 26, 1998

Vintage · İngilizce · 336 sayfa
ISBN 9780679779087

1997

Knopf · İngilizce · 304 sayfa
ISBN 0679454926

1997

Knopf · İngilizce · 304 sayfa
ISBN 0679454926