Del 36 - Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation

Used, Abused, and Sidelined

Debating the Declaration

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvMary E. Stuckey,Penn State University) Stuckey, Mary E. (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences

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Since it was published in 1776, the Declaration of Independence has been used to advocate for social justice and to maintain inequitable social hierarchies; it has served as a model for justifying revolutions in other nations and for the Confederacy’s secession from the US federal government. But as we approach its 250th anniversary, this book asks: Does the Declaration still matter?In this volume, leading scholars explore how this remarkably pliable document has been used for progressive and regressive politics alike and track its impact on independence movements across the globe. The essays begin with the Declaration’s immediate reception and masculine style of prose and then move on to its central role in interpreting civic action between state and federal governments, most notably secession in the Antebellum era, questions of sovereignty between Indigenous nations in the United States, and the United States’ relationship with Latin America. The next section focuses on the ways the Declaration was called upon to urge imperative moral action, especially in terms of human rights, in the US Civil Rights Movement and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and, in contrast, how it was cast aside in the Syrian Revolution. The final section teases out the tension between the needs reflected in the original document and the needs of the contemporary political world.Used, Abused, and Sidelined demonstrates how this foundational document prepares us to tolerate and to resist—and it points to how we might leverage the Declaration to create a different kind of political future.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-08-19
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
Antal sidor308
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271099279

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Acknowledgments The Declaration of Independence Introduction | 1Part 1 The Declaration in Its Time1. An Appeal to the Tribunal of the World: The Reception of the Timely and Timeless Messages of the Declaration in 1776 and Beyond Jelte Olthof2. “An Impudent, False, and Atrocious Proclamation”: Loyalist Critique andthe Limits of Dissent in Colonial AmericaStephen Howard Browne3. A Declaration of Style: Masculinity’s Enduring Resonance Anna M. YoungPart 2 The Sovereign Declaration4. The Antebellum Declaration: Abolition, Secession, and Revolution Mary E. Stuckey5. From Declaration to Self- Determination: Decolonial Shifts in Indigenous Rhetorical Authority Jason Edward Black6. Declaring Economic Independence: Argentina, Juan Domingo Per.n, and Political Time Stephen J. Heidt7. Sovereignty Reimagined: Tropes, Sovereign Citizen Discourses, and the Declaration of Independence Scott J. VardaPart 3 Claims to Equality8. We Are the True Americans: The Declaration of Independence and Radical, Anti- capitalist, Working- Class Movements Mary Anne Trasciatti9. The Declaration of Independence and Civil Rights: The Long Movement and CountermovementDavis W. Houck10. From Black Lives Matter to the Syrian Revolution: How Do“We the People” Render Our Struggles Visible? Noor Ghazal Aswad11. A Morally Grounded Ideograph: V.clav Havel’s Constitutive Rhetoric in the Velvet Revolution Rebecca OliverPart 4 The Semi- sacred Declaration12. “That Was the First Time in History That Anyone Bothered to Write That Down”: Mythologizing the Declaration of Independence in The West Wing Christopher J. Wernecke and Ann E. Burnette13. Proximate Deliberation and the 1776 Moment: The Proud Boys’ andOath Keepers’ Use of the Declaration of Independence Leslie A. Hahner14. From Cultural Artifact to Culture War: The Declaration of Independence and the Fight for Control of the US Civics Classroom Mark Hlavacik15. Borrowing Trouble? The Declaration’s Threshold of Suffering and Care Brandon InabinetList of Contributors Index

“These essays do more than valorize the US Declaration of Independence, they unfold its rhetorical character, probing its rhetorical and political affordances, as well as its gaps, blindnesses, and omissions. Peeling back layers of well-meaning mythology, the essays provide a balanced reckoning with a document that has shaped discourse, inside and outside the United States, for the last 250 years.”—William M. Keith, coauthor of Beyond Civility: The Competing Obligations of Citizenship