American soul : the contested legacy of the Declaration of Independence / edited with an introduction by Justin Buckley Dyer ; foreword by David L. Boren.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Declaration of Independence / Continental Congress, 1776 -- Rough draft of the Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson, 1776 -- Letters to Abigail / John Adams, 1776 -- A short review of the Declaration / Jeremy Bentham, 1826 -- The American mind / Thomas Jefferson, 1825 -- Popular sovereignty / James Wilson, 1787 -- Keeping the revolution / Daniel Webster, 1802 -- The American and French revolutions / Lemuel Shaw, 1815 -- American principles / John Quincy Adams, 1821 -- Fifty years later / Thomas Jefferson / 1826 -- The lives and characters of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams / William Wirt, 1826 -- Petition for freedom / "A great number of blackes," 1777 -- The constitution and slavery / Luther Martin, 1787 -- Republican consistency! / William Lloyd Garrison, 1838 -- Amistad argument / John Quincy Adams, 1841 -- Tthe cause of the present crisis / John C. Calhoun, 1848 -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass, 1852 -- Party platform / Republican National Convention, 1856 -- The Dred Scott Decision / Chief Justice Roger Taney, 1857 -- Debate on the Dred Scott Decision / Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, 1858 -- The chief cornerstone / Alexander Stephens, 1861 -- Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln, 1863 -- Reconstructing America / United States Congress, 1864-1870 -- Seneca Falls Declaration / Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, 1848 -- Declaration of the Rights of Women / National Woman Suffrage Association, 1876 -- The inevitability of women's suffrage / Carrie Chapmen Catt, 1917 -- What is progress? / Woodrow Wilson, 1913 -- Speech on the Fourth of July / Calvin Coolidge, 1926 -- Commonwealth Club Address / Franklin Roosevelt, 1932 -- Speech at the Bicentennial of the Constitution / Thurgood Marshall, 1987 -- The sanctity of human life / Ronald Reagan, 1984 -- America's work in the world / George W. Bush, 2003 -- A more perfect union / Barack Obama, 2008.

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American Soul brings together a variety of primary source documents related to the contested meaning and legacy of the Declaration of Independence, and the various speeches and writings assembled together demonstrate how competing interpretations of the Declaration have shaped, and been shaped by, two and a half centuries of political conflict in America.

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