| United States - Politics and government - 1775-1783. The Declaration of Independence: The Jefferson Draft with Congress's Editorial Changes. Local Resolutions on Independence: Some Examples State and Local Declarations of Independence, A Log: April-July 1776 Jefferson's Draft: A Revolutionary Manifesto. Jefferson's Draft: The Charges Against the King. The "Other" Declarations of Independence. Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament the great difficulty in making the decision for Independence the influence of Paine's Common Sense, which shifted the terms of debate and the political maneuvers that allowed Congress to make the momentous decision. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be - from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself became sanctified. Her book, American Scripture: Making the. Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. She primarily wrote on the American Revolution and Early Republic. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1997 Broken link? let us search Trove, the Wayback Machine, or Google for you.
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