Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: The First Inaugural AddressTexas A&M University Press, 20. mai 2003 - 176 sider Widely celebrated in its own time, Thomas Jefferson’s first inaugural address commands the regard of Americans from across the political spectrum. Delivered as the young nation found itself embroiled in bitter partisan struggles, the speech has been hailed as the Sermon on the Mount of good government. Curiously, this masterpiece—the full text of which is reproduced in this volume—has never received sustained analysis. Here, Stephen Howard Browne describes its origins, composition, meaning, and delivery. His wellcrafted argument and accessible prose offer a model of analysis for rhetorical scholars and students and an added dimension to the history of the early republic and the understanding of American political thought. |
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... force , the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism ; a well - disci- plined militia , our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military ...
... force , the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism ; a well - disci- plined militia , our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military ...
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... force and extent of his vision for an " empire of liberty , " and sees the man as embodying some of the best and worst qualities of the American ex- perience . At the same time , I have not for the purposes of this study cen- tered the ...
... force and extent of his vision for an " empire of liberty , " and sees the man as embodying some of the best and worst qualities of the American ex- perience . At the same time , I have not for the purposes of this study cen- tered the ...
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... force because they are responses to and projections of prevailing historical and situational factors . Ideally , we seek to have it both ways : to appreciate the singularity of Jefferson's production and its function within broader ...
... force because they are responses to and projections of prevailing historical and situational factors . Ideally , we seek to have it both ways : to appreciate the singularity of Jefferson's production and its function within broader ...
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Side xiv - And let us reflect, that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little, if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions. During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty...
Side xv - ... enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practised in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man...
Side xvi - Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad ; a jealous care of the right of election by the people ; a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...