TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pincus,Steven C.A.
TI  - The heart of the Declaration: the founders' case for an activist government 
T2  - The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
SN  - 9780300224443
AV  - E221 
U1  - 973.3/13 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New Haven, Connecticut
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Declaration of Independence
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Declaration of Independence (United States)
KW  - fast
KW  - 1776
KW  - ram
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - State & Local
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Jusqu'à 1775
KW  - 1775-1783
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Mount Vernon : patriot estate -- Patriots and the imperial crisis of the 1760s -- Making a patriot government
N2  - An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding document From one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country's political parties: Should the government play a major or a minor role in the lives of American citizens? The Declaration of Independence has long been invoked as a philosophical treatise in favor of limited government. Yet the bulk of the document is a discussion of policy, in which the Founders outlined the failures of the British imperial government. Above all, they declared, the British state since 1760 had done too little to promote the prosperity of its American subjects. Looking beyond the Declaration's frequently cited opening paragraphs, Steve Pincus reveals how the document is actually a blueprint for a government with extensive powers to promote and protect the people's welfare. By examining the Declaration in the context of British imperial debates, Pincus offers a nuanced portrait of the Founders' intentions with profound political implications for today
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