The Reading Room
On Two Treatises of Government
If you want to read the argument the Declaration of Independence is built on, nearly sentence for sentence, read Locke.
On Two Treatises of Government
If you want to read the argument the Declaration of Independence is built on, nearly sentence for sentence, read Locke.
On Common Sense
Common Sense made independence thinkable to ordinary people, and it did so because Thomas Paine wrote the way they spoke.
On Common Sense
Common Sense made independence thinkable to ordinary people, and it did so because Thomas Paine wrote the way they spoke.
On The Declaration of Independence
Everyone knows the second sentence. We hold these truths to be self-evident.
On The Declaration of Independence
Everyone knows the second sentence. We hold these truths to be self-evident.
On The Constitution of the United States
The Declaration soars. The Constitution counts. Read them back to back, as you can in this library, and the change of register is the whole story.
On The Constitution of the United States
The Declaration soars. The Constitution counts. Read them back to back, as you can in this library, and the change of register is the whole story.
