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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... speech " will always be to good government what the Sermon on the Mount is to religion , " and Woodrow Wilson noted , " Nothing could exceed the fine tact and gentleness with which Mr. Jefferson gave tone of order and patriotic purpose ...
... speech " will always be to good government what the Sermon on the Mount is to religion , " and Woodrow Wilson noted , " Nothing could exceed the fine tact and gentleness with which Mr. Jefferson gave tone of order and patriotic purpose ...
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... speech will inevitably draw unfavorable comparisons be- tween the felicity of its subject and that of the author . That is fair . My only excuse rests in the conviction that Jefferson's text will reward the effort , that it is so ...
... speech will inevitably draw unfavorable comparisons be- tween the felicity of its subject and that of the author . That is fair . My only excuse rests in the conviction that Jefferson's text will reward the effort , that it is so ...
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... speech.5 That said , the following account is undertaken from a perspective broadly construed as rhetorical . By this I refer to a persistent interest in the ways language works to shape our understanding of the world and our ...
... speech.5 That said , the following account is undertaken from a perspective broadly construed as rhetorical . By this I refer to a persistent interest in the ways language works to shape our understanding of the world and our ...
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... speech . Above all , it draws attention to a particular kind of intelligence , a capacity to reason and speak effectively in the shifting contexts of political life . This faculty will be exercised best , Aristotle teaches us , when it ...
... speech . Above all , it draws attention to a particular kind of intelligence , a capacity to reason and speak effectively in the shifting contexts of political life . This faculty will be exercised best , Aristotle teaches us , when it ...
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... speech rather than a philosophical tome : we have only to think of Edmund Burke to recognize that the two genres are not necessarily incommensurable . No , the problem rests in thinking of Jefferson as a " philosophical " thinker ( as ...
... speech rather than a philosophical tome : we have only to think of Edmund Burke to recognize that the two genres are not necessarily incommensurable . No , the problem rests in thinking of Jefferson as a " philosophical " thinker ( as ...
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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...