Declaration of Independence

1. Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated John Taylor of Caroline 3 authority · 1 neutral 4 citations · 6 passages

   section 3.: sovereignty. 2 passages anchored here · ch. 7 2 passages anchored here · ch. 11 · ch. 15

   Directly quoted as the source of the people's right to alter, abolish and institute governments, treated as the foundational authority for the American divisions of power.

   Let us go back to the quotation from the declaration of independence, for the sake of remarking, that its assertion of the “right of the people to alter, abolish and institute governments” could only have a reference to the conventional or collective beings, under that denomination, then existing.

2. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery Lysander Spooner 2 authority · 1 endorsed 3 citations · 8 passages

   ch. 5 5 passages anchored here · secondly. · ch. 14 2 passages anchored here

   Directly named and treated as authoritative constitutional law throughout the passage.

   Admitting, for the sake of the argument, that prior to the revolution, slavery had a constitutional existence, (so far as it is possible that crime can have such an existence,) was it not abolished by the declaration of independence?

3. Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England A. V. Dicey 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 36

   The Declaration of Independence is explicitly named and its practical limits as a safeguard of rights assessed.

   the American Declaration of Independence, with its proclamation of the inalienable rights of man, did not deliver a single negro from slavery.

4. Ancient Law Henry Sumner Maine 1 extended 1 citation

   ch. 8

   The passage explicitly discusses the Declaration of Independence as developing the equality doctrine further.

   A very few glances at the writings of Jefferson will show how strongly his mind was affected by the semi-juridical, semi-popular opinions which were fashionable in France, and we cannot doubt that it was sympathy with the peculiar ideas of the French jurists which led him and the other colonial lawyers who guided the course of events in America to join the specially French assumption that “all men …

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