(1) As historians look back, one of, if not the only, notable acts of (5) our interpretation of the Declaration differs from that of Jefferson Other Declarations by the Colonies and townships that contain similar sentiments (4) in fact, those ideas were so prevalent that there are nearly 100 The text & the ideas therein are not solely his (3) she's discovered that Thomas Jefferson was not the sole author of That had been done two days earlier, it explained why independence was (2) she reveals that the Declaration did not actually declare our independence,
The declaration, she focuses on the mechanics of the legislative process
(1) unlike Carl Becker, whose classic study "The Declaration of Independence:Ī Study in the History of Political Ideas" focused on the ideas underlying However, as near as I can determine the following elements of Ms Maier's Milieu out of which the action arose and of following its fall and supposed Of presenting the story of the drafting of the Declaration and the political Let me first say that the author has done a great job Offer a revolutionary (pardon the pun) new interpretation of the Declaration This book was published to great applause last year and purported to Lives and Services of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (Daniel Webster, August 2, 1826, Faneuil Hall, Boston) Say, that he so discharged the duty assigned him, that all Americans may well rejoice that the work of drawing the title-deed of their liberties devolved To say that he did excellently well, admirably well, would be inadequate and halting praise. Work well, would be doing him an injustice. World in such manner of it might so be, as to engage its sympathy, to command its respect, to attract its admiration and in an assembly of most ableĪnd distinguished men, THOMAS JEFFERSON had the high honor of being the selected advocate of this cause. The cause of American independence, moreover, was now to be presented to the
Measure, in any event of fortune, to mthe country and to posterity. It was proposed to declare independence and the proper business of the paper to be drawn was to set for th those causes, and justify the authors of the It was not to invent reasons for independence, but to state those which governed the Congress. But it was not the object of the Declaration to Grounds of proceeding and presses topics of argument, which had often been stated and pressed before. It has sometimes been said, as if it were a derogation from the merits of this paper, that it contains nothing new that it only states
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