Where Patriots Rally When Democracy Is Threatened: The Origins & History of the Political Principles Contained in the Declaration of Independence

by Ben McNitt

Overview

Author Ben McNitt tracts such concepts as the pursuit of happiness, inalienable rights, and consent of the governed from their origins to their inclusion in the Declaration. He also describes the fate of many of those who struggled to define freedom amidst their contemporary backdrop of church dogma and the despotism of kings and princes. War, imprisonment, torture, exile and banishment are the crucibles from which the legacy of liberal democracy emerged.
We get the flavor of the Radical Enlightenment through the life and works of Spinoza and of the more influential Moderate Enlightenment in coverage of John Locke and Sydney Algernon.
Where Patriots Rally is a breath-taking journey through the West's political development culminating in drafting America's political creed in the Declaration of Independence.
The essay closes with a stirring call to those who have inherited this great legacy to rally in its defense against threatening authoritarianism.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185780039
Publisher:	MacNaughton
Publication date:	10/11/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Ben McNitt has pursued careers in journalism, including being CNN’s Cairo Bureau Chief and international correspondent in the later 1980s; environmental advocacy with the nation’s largest conservation organization in Washington, D.C., and custom woodworking at his current home. He lives on a patch of the Sonoran Desert north of Tucson. His first book is A House Divided Slavery and American Politics from the Constitution to the Civil War.