The American Creed: A Biography of the Declaration of IndependenceMacmillan, 2003 - 180 من الصفحات What makes us all Americans--whatever our differences--is adherence to a creed, a creed based upon cornerstone truths the founders believed "self-evident." From the earliest days, the survival of the new republic hinged not merely upon the expression of these grand principles of liberty and equality but upon their spiritual underpinnings. Freedom and faith were intertwined. America, as a foreign observer once put it, is a nation with the soul of a church. |
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A CITY ON A HILL | 1 |
SOUL FREEDOM | 10 |
THE LIBERTY BELL | 19 |
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS | 30 |
A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM | 43 |
E PLURIBUS UNUM | 57 |
AMERICAS MISSION | 68 |
NEW FRONTIERS OLD TRUTHS | 102 |
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL | 120 |
TO MY CHILDREN | 141 |
NOTES AND SOURCES | 157 |