John Vile

The Declaration of Independence

America's First Founding Document in U.S. History and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

This A-to-Z encyclopedia surveys the history, meaning, and enduring impact of the Declaration of Independence by explaining its contents and concepts, profiling the Founding Fathers, and detailing depictions of the Declaration in art, music, and literature. A comprehensive resource for understanding all aspects of the Declaration of Independence, which marked the formal beginning of the colonies' march toward the creation of the United States of America, this encyclopedia contains more than 200 entries examining various facets of the Declaration of Independence and its enduring impact on American law, politics, and culture. It details key concepts, principles, and intellectual influences that informed the creation of the document, reviews charges leveled in the Declaration against the British crown, summarizes the events of the first and second Continental Congresses, profiles influential architects and signers of the Declaration, discusses existing copies of the Declaration, explains the document's influence on other governments/nations, covers historic sites related to the document, and discusses depictions of the document and its architects in American art, music, and literature over time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1121g
• ISBN-13: 9781440863028
• ISBN-10: 1440863024
• Artikelnr.: 53689124

Autorenporträt

John R. Vile

Inhaltsangabe

Topical List of Entries Preface Introduction Timeline Interesting Facts
Entries: Abdication of Government (Charge #23) Abolitionism Abuses and
Usurpations Act of Abjuration (Plakkaat van Verlatinge, 1581) Adams, John
Adams, John Quincy, Independence Day Address (July 4, 1821) Address to the
Inhabitants of the Colonies (Wilson) Address to the People of Great Britain
(October 21, 1774) Albert H. Small Declaration of Independence Collection
Ambition An Answer to the Declaration of the American Congress (Lind)
Attestation Clauses Audiences for the Declaration of Independence Bentham's
Short Review of the Declaration of Independence Bill of Rights Binns
Engraving of the Declaration of Independence British Constitution British
Crown British Deposition Apologias Calhoun, John C. Called Together
Legislative Bodies Unusually (Charge #4) Capitalization and Punctuation in
the Declaration of Independence Captions of the Declaration of Independence
Charges against the King and Others Circumstances of Our Emigration and
Settlement Civilian Control of the Military (Charge #12) Coins and Stamps
Depicting the Declaration of Independence Committee Responsible for Writing
the Declaration of Independence Common Sense (Paine) Congress Voting
Independence (Painting by Savage) Congressional and Presidential References
to the Declaration of Independence Congressional Response to Lord North's
Conciliatory Resolution Connecticut and Its Signers Consent of the Governed
Considerations on the Nature and Extent of Legislative Authority of the
British Parliament (Wilson) Conspiracy Constrained Our Fellow Citizens
Taken Captive on the High Seas (Charge #26) Covenants and Compacts Creation
of New State Governments Creed/Scriptures Debates over the Declaration of
Independence Declaration (Meaning of Term) Declaration and Resolves of the
First Continental Congress (1774) Declaration House Declaration of
Independence Desk Declaration of Sentiments (1848) Declaration on the
Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms Declaratory Act of 1766 Delaware and
Its Signers Democracy Dickinson (John) Speech Opposing the Declaration of
Independence Dissolution of Government Dissolved Representative Houses
(Charge #5) Dunlap Broadside Printing of the Declaration of Independence
Endeavored to Prevent the Population (Charge #7) English Declaration of
Rights Engravings and Printings of the Declaration of Independence
Engrossed Declaration of Independence (Matlack) Equality Erected a
Multitude of New Offices (Charge #10) Evolution of the Text Facts Family
Faulkner, Barry (Painting) Federalism Forbidding Governors from Passing
Laws (Charge #2) Franklin, Benjamin Friends and Enemies George III,
Proclamation of Rebellion (August 23, 1775) George III, Speech to
Parliament (October 27, 1775) George III, Speech to Parliament (October 31,
1776) Georgia and Its Signers God Goddard Printing of the Declaration of
Independence Hancock's Letters Accompanying the Declaration of Independence
He Has Combined with Others (Charge #13) Howe's Circular Letter (1776)
Human Nature and the Declaration of Independence Independence Independence
Day Independence Hall International Law Interpreting the Declaration of
Independence Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Jefferson's Epitaph
Jefferson's Last Words on the Declaration of Independence Jefferson's Notes
on Debates over Independence Jefferson's Resolutions on Lord North's
Conciliatory Proposal Jefferson's Speech to Jean Baptiste Ducoigne (1781)
Justice Kingship Laws of Nature and of Nature's God Legal Form of the
Declaration of Independence Length of the Declaration of Independence Life,
Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness Lincoln, Abraham List of
Infringements and Violations of Rights (Warren) Locke, John Made Judges
Dependent on His Will (Charge #9) Majority Rule and Unanimity Martin Luther
King Jr. Legislation Maryland and Its Signers Massachusetts and Its Signers
Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Memorial to the 56 Signers of the
Declaration of Independence Moral Virtues in the Declaration of
Independence Musical Play 1776 Native American Indians (Charge #27)
Necessity New Hampshire and Its Signers New Jersey and Its Signers New York
and Its Signers Nor Have We Been Wanting in Attention to Our English
Brethren North Carolina and Its Signers Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Obstructed the Administration of Justice (Charge #8) Olive Branch Petition
Originality of the Declaration of Independence Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and
Our Sacred Honor Outline and Organization of the Declaration of
Independence Pennsylvania and Its Signers People Petition to King George
III (1774) Petitions for Redress Ignored (Charge #28) Philadelphia
Plundered Our Seas (Charge #24) Preamble to the Resolution of Virginia
Convention (May 15, 1776) Preserving the Declaration of Independence
Proclamation, Reading, and Reception of the Declaration of Independence
Property Rights Protecting Troops by Mock Trials (Charge #15) Prudence
Quartering Troops (Charge #14) Quebec Act of 1774 (Charge #20) Reason
References to King George III in the Declaration of Independence Refused
Assent to Colonial Laws (Charge #1) Refused to Cause Others to Be Elected
(Charge #6) Refused to Pass Other Laws (Charge #3) Remember the Ladies
Representative (Republican) Government Reputation of the Declaration of
Independence Resolutions Introduced by Richard Henry Lee (June 7, 1776)
Revolution Rhode Island and Its Signers The Rights of Great Britain
Asserted against the Claims of America (Macpherson) Rush's (Benjamin)
Characters of the Signers Scottish Enlightenment Second Continental
Congress Secrecy Self-Evident Truths Signers, Collective Profile Signing of
the Declaration of Independence Slavery South Carolina and Its Signers
Standing Armies (Charge #11) State Constitutions and the Declaration of
Independence Statue of Liberty Stone Engraving of the Declaration of
Independence Strictures upon the Declaration of Independence (Hutchinson)
Style of the Declaration of Independence Suffolk Resolves of 1774 A Summary
View of the Rights of British America (Jefferson) Supreme Court and the
Declaration of Independence Suspending Legislatures (Charge #22) Sussex
Declaration Syng Inkstand Taking Away Our Charters (Charge #21) Taxes
(Charge #17) Temperature on July 4, 1776 Timing of the Declaration of
Independence Tories Trade (Charge #16) Translations of the Declaration of
Independence Transporting Large Armies of Foreign Mercenaries (Charge #25)
Transporting Us beyond Seas (Charge #19) Treason Trial by Jury (Charge #18)
Trumbull, John (Paintings) Tyler Engraving of the Declaration of
Independence Tyranny Unalienable Rights United States of America (Name)
U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence Virginia and Its
Signers Virginia Constitution of 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights
Virginia Resolution of May 15, 1776 Vote for Independence "We"
(First-Person Plural) We Have Appealed to Their Native Justice &
Magnanimity When in the Course of Human Events Whig Political Thought
Whitney, Peter (Sermon) Writing the Declaration of Independence (J. L. G.
Ferris Painting) Appendix A: Thomas Jefferson's Rough Draft of the
Declaration of Independence Appendix B: Declaration of Independence (1776)
Appendix C: Signers by State from North to South Glossary Bibliography
Index