20th Century · English
The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas
The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas, by Carl L. Becker (1873–1945), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.
Chapters
- 01The Declaration of Independence, Chapter I: The Declaration of Independenceprose
- 02Chapter II: Historical Antecedents of the Declaration: The Natural Rights Philosophyprose
- 03Chapter III: Historical Antecedents of the Declaration: Theory of the British Empireprose
- 04Chapter IV: Drafting the Declarationprose
- 05The Rough Draft (as it probably read when Jefferson first submitted it to Franklin.)prose
- 06The Rough Draft as it probably read when Jefferson made the ‘fair copy’ which was presented to Congress as the report ofprose
- 07The Declaration of Independence (as it reads in the Lee copy, which is probably the same as the report of the Committee prose
- 08The Declaration of Independence (as it reads in the parchment copy.)prose
- 09Chapter V: The Literary Qualities of the Declarationprose
- 10Chapter VI: The Philosophy of the Declaration in the Ninteenth Centuryprose