Democracy, Equality, and the Study of Politics

SPOT THE MISTAKE:

HOW GOVERNMENT AFFECTS YOU: ICE ADMINISTRATIVE WARRANT V. JUDICIAL WARRANT.

SEE THE FOURTH AMENDMENT.

For Wednesday:

• Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" July 5, 1852 (abridged version), https://newtranscendentalist.medium.com/an-abridged-version-of-what-to-the-slave-is-the-4th-of-july-frederick-douglass-1852-68516ede8d15
• Alexander Stephens, "The Cornerstone Speech," March 21, 1861, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/cornerstone-speech/

TERMS

DEMOCRACY, REPUBLIC, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

OLIGARCHY, AUTOCRACY, AUTHORITARIAN TOTALITARIAN

REPRESENTATION: DESCRIPTIVE V. AGENCY 

DATA

THE DECLARATION

PURPOSES:

• GET FOREIGN SUPPORT
• RALLY DOMESTIC SUPPORT

"The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America"

• Why states instead of colonies.
• Other examples of name changes: countries, historical figures, fictional characters.

 `When in the course of human events " --Latin cursus, meaning "flow" --a tide e-ventus "outcome"it becomes necessary .."

• Why course?

" for one people to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them with another and to assume, among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station"

• What is a “nation”? Shared cultural life, having or wanting their own government.
• What holds us together?
• What is a “station”? -- Latin for “stand.”

Compare "separate and equal" with "separate but equal."

• Keep in mind for our discussion of Lincoln's Second Inaugural:  "And the war came" means something radically different from "But the war came."

What does it mean to be equal? "But `equal' and `same" are not synonyms" (107).

"to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them"

Spinoza -- TJ himself was a Deist. Locke: "The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges everyone, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life,health, liberty or possessions."

•  King’s concept of natural law
•  Compare and contrast to Jefferson? – Editors added more God -- why?

 a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

• Address to the whole world (France, in particular)
• Impel to be pushed