Our Declaration : A Reading Of The Declaration Of Independence In Defense O

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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, the author boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout,