The Declaration of Independence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. The Declaration of Independence xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1 The Declaration in Its Time
7. 1 An Appeal to the Tribunal of the World: The Reception of the Timely and Timeless Messages of the Declaration in 1776 and Beyond 13
8. 2 “An Impudent, False, and Atrocious Proclamation”: Loyalist Critique and the Limits of Dissent in Colonial America 30
9. 3 A Declaration of Style: Masculinity’s Enduring Resonance 46
10. Part 2 The Sovereign Declaration
11. 4 The Antebellum Declaration: Abolition, Secession, and Revolution 65
12. 5 From Declaration to Self- Determination: Decolonial Shifts in Indigenous Rhetorical Authority 82
13. 6 Declaring Economic Independence: Argentina, Juan Domingo Perón, and Political Time 100
14. 7 Sovereignty Reimagined: Tropes, Sovereign Citizen Discourses, and the Declaration of Independence 119
15. Part 3 Claims to Equality
16. 8 We Are the True Americans: The Declaration of Independence and Radical, Anti- capitalist, Working- Class Movements 141
17. 9 The Declaration of Independence and Civil Rights: The Long Movement and Countermovement 160
18. 10 From Black Lives Matter to the Syrian Revolution: How Do “We the People” Render Our Struggles Visible? 178
19. 11 A Morally Grounded Ideograph: Václav Havel’s Constitutive Rhetoric in the Velvet Revolution 194
20. Part 4 The Semi- sacred Declaration
21. 12 “That Was the First Time in History That Anyone Bothered to Write That Down”: Mythologizing the Declaration of Independence in The West Wing 207
22. 13 Proximate Deliberation and the 1776 Moment: The Proud Boys’ and Oath Keepers’ Use of the Declaration of Independence 224
23. 14 From Cultural Artifact to Culture War: The Declaration of Independence and the Fight for Control of the US Civics Classroom 241
24. 15 Borrowing Trouble? The Declaration’s Threshold of Suffering and Care 257
25. List of Contributors 275
26. Index 279