Where Patriots Rally When Democracy Is Threatened: The Origins & History of the Political Principles Contained in the Declaration of Independence
American democracy is under authoritarian attack. Where Patriots Rally narrates the origin and history of our founding principles so that you may be better able and more inclined to defend them from that attack. As Thomas Paine, the pamphleteer of the American Revolution, put it, "These are the times that try men's souls." To be worthy of our democracy we must be willing to fight for its survival.
The object of Where Patriots Rally's inquiry is a set of ideas - the principles written into the Declaration of Independence - the self-evident truths of universal equality based on inalienable natural rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness under governance by consent of the governed.
The essay's premise is that a basic grasp of humankind's quest to extract these principles from more than twenty centuries of hard experience can inspire a renewed dedication to them.
The quest begins with ancient Greek philosophers whose writings influenced Western political development from the fall of Rome through the Middle Ages. In fresh, crisp vernacular we meet the leading shapers of the West's political narrative whose lives and works are most often conveyed in a more academic context.
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Where Patriots Rally When Democracy Is Threatened: The Origins & History of the Political Principles Contained in the Declaration of Independence
American democracy is under authoritarian attack. Where Patriots Rally narrates the origin and history of our founding principles so that you may be better able and more inclined to defend them from that attack. As Thomas Paine, the pamphleteer of the American Revolution, put it, "These are the times that try men's souls." To be worthy of our democracy we must be willing to fight for its survival.
The object of Where Patriots Rally's inquiry is a set of ideas - the principles written into the Declaration of Independence - the self-evident truths of universal equality based on inalienable natural rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness under governance by consent of the governed.
The essay's premise is that a basic grasp of humankind's quest to extract these principles from more than twenty centuries of hard experience can inspire a renewed dedication to them.
The quest begins with ancient Greek philosophers whose writings influenced Western political development from the fall of Rome through the Middle Ages. In fresh, crisp vernacular we meet the leading shapers of the West's political narrative whose lives and works are most often conveyed in a more academic context.
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Where Patriots Rally When Democracy Is Threatened: The Origins & History of the Political Principles Contained in the Declaration of Independence

Where Patriots Rally When Democracy Is Threatened: The Origins & History of the Political Principles Contained in the Declaration of Independence

by Ben McNitt
Where Patriots Rally When Democracy Is Threatened: The Origins & History of the Political Principles Contained in the Declaration of Independence

Where Patriots Rally When Democracy Is Threatened: The Origins & History of the Political Principles Contained in the Declaration of Independence

by Ben McNitt

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American democracy is under authoritarian attack. Where Patriots Rally narrates the origin and history of our founding principles so that you may be better able and more inclined to defend them from that attack. As Thomas Paine, the pamphleteer of the American Revolution, put it, "These are the times that try men's souls." To be worthy of our democracy we must be willing to fight for its survival.
The object of Where Patriots Rally's inquiry is a set of ideas - the principles written into the Declaration of Independence - the self-evident truths of universal equality based on inalienable natural rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness under governance by consent of the governed.
The essay's premise is that a basic grasp of humankind's quest to extract these principles from more than twenty centuries of hard experience can inspire a renewed dedication to them.
The quest begins with ancient Greek philosophers whose writings influenced Western political development from the fall of Rome through the Middle Ages. In fresh, crisp vernacular we meet the leading shapers of the West's political narrative whose lives and works are most often conveyed in a more academic context.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781962155106
Publisher: MacNaughton
Publication date: 11/01/2023
Pages: 114
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Ben McNitt has pursued careers in journalism, including being CNN’s Cairo Bureau Chief and international correspondent in the later 1980s; environmental advocacy with the nation’s largest conservation organization in Washington, D.C., and custom woodworking at his current home. He lives on a patch of the Sonoran Desert north of Tucson. His first book is A House Divided Slavery and American Politics from the Constitution to the Civil War.
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