Declaration of Independence
quoted 10 times by 4 works · not held
also in the atlas: Declaration of Independence the object
Most often carried — quoted as a source. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated John Taylor of Caroline 1 neutral 5 citations · 6 passages
section 3.: sovereignty. 2 passages anchored here · ch. 7 2 passages anchored here · ch. 11 · ch. 15The author quotes the declaration of independence as the founding textual authority for the right of the people to establish governments.
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.
ch. 7 ¶ -
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery Lysander Spooner 1 endorsed 3 citations · 7 passages
The declaration's text and claims are reported and relied upon as authoritative.
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?
ch. 5 ¶ -
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England A. V. Dicey 1 neutral 1 citation
Matches the citation of the American Declaration of Independence.
the American Declaration of Independence, with its proclamation of the inalienable rights of man, did not deliver a single negro from slavery.
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Ancient Law Henry Sumner Maine 1 extended 1 citation
Satisfies the requirement that the Declaration of Independence citation have a matching citation_quote event.
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 …
ch. 8 ¶
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