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Jefferson's First Declaration of Independence: A Summary View of the Rights of British America Revisited.
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This paper examined the summary view of the rights of British America as evidence of his craft as a storyteller and concluded that it represents the first declaration of independence of the United States from the British Crown.Abstract:
This essay examines Jefferson's Summary View of the Rights of British America as evidence of his craft as a storyteller. Specifically, I argue that Jefferson deploys a series of narrative renderings, the rhetorical effect of which is to eliminate the possibility of any genuine reconciliation with the English government. On the basis of this interpretation I conclude that the Summary View represents Jefferson's first declaration of independence.read more
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The Radical Democratic Thought of Thomas Jefferson: Politics, Space, & Action
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that a secondary route of analysis is needed within the epistolary catalogue of Thomas Jefferson, which is needed to move beyond the axis of his writings on indigenous societies, primarily comprised in his Notes on Virginia and the batch of letters pertaining to the correlation between form and happiness.
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The Populist Chameleon: The People's Party, Huey Long, George Wallace, and the Populist Argumentative Frame
TL;DR: The authors argued that the advancement of populism is constituted by alterations in the focus and content, not the structure, of populist activism, and traced these themes through the rhetoric of the People's Party, Huey Long, and George Wallace.
From ‘sacred and undeniable’ to ‘self-evident’: a rhetorical analysis of Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence
TL;DR: Mcugh as discussed by the authors examined the original draft of the Declaration of Independence using a combination of three methods of rhetorical criticism: analysis of the rhetorical situation, close textual analysis, and Dramatistic analysis.
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Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century
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The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution
TL;DR: In this paper, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century uses diaries, personal correspondence, newspapers, and legislative records to examine the ways in which an understanding of the nature of history influenced the thinking of the Founding Fathers.
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Doing rhetorical history : concepts and cases
TL;DR: In this paper, eminent scholars address the ongoing dialogue over the regrounding of rhetorical study and the relationship between theory and history, as well as history and criticism in the field.
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Thomas Jefferson's Use of the Past
TL;DR: For instance, the authors argues that the incompleteness of the portrait of the real Thomas Jefferson is due to an omission of the Jefferson historical perspective. But this is only a part of the whole portrait.