Title: The Declaration of Independence : origins and impact /
Authors: Gerber, Scott Douglas, 1961-
Publisher: CQ Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: United States.; United States Politics and government; United States Politics and government; United States Politics and government Philosophy.
Abstract: "The Battle of Gettysburg attained a special aura that has distinguished it ever since. Boston journalist Charles Carleton Coffin dubbed it "the high water mark" of the rebellion, while others described it as the "turning point of the war." But it was President Lincoln who most eloquently expressed Gettysburg's significance. On 19 November 1863, Lincoln delivered "a few appropriate remarks" at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery that became known as the Gettysburg Address: "We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." --
Contents: Drafting the Declaration / Gerard W. Gawalt -- The political theory of the Declaration of Independence / Garrett Ward Sheldon -- Abraham Lincoln and the universal meaning of the Declaration of Independence / Harry V. Jaffa -- Clarence Thomas, civil rights, and the Declaration of Independence / Scott Douglas Gerber -- The Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation : a completed constitutional covenant / Robert W. Hoffert -- The Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights / Thomas G. West -- The Declaration of Independence as viewed from the states / John C. Eastman -- The Declaration of Independence, Congress, and presidents of the United States / Charles A. Kromkowski -- The Declaration of Independence in the Supreme Court / Mark D. Hall -- Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X interpret the Declaration of Independence / Keith D. Miller -- Women, equality, and the Declaration of Independence / Bonnie L. Ford -- Reception of the Declaration of Independence / David Thelen.