The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationThe American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that have inspired, enraged, delighted, chastened, and comforted Americans in days gone by. Gathered here are the writings that illuminate -- with wit, eloquence, and sometimes sharp words -- significant aspects of national conciousness. They reflect the part that all Americans -- black and white, native born and immigrant, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, poor and wealthy -- have played in creating the nation's character. |
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... constitutions , & offices , from time to time , as shall be thought most meete & convenient for the generall good of the Colonie : unto which we promise all due submission and obedience . In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed ...
... Constitution ; read the histories of ancient ages ; contemplate the great examples of Greece and Rome ; set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors , who have defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and ...
... constitution of the intellectual and moral world . There let us see that truth , liberty , justice , and benevolence are its everlasting basis ; and if these could be removed , the super- structure is overthrown of course . Let the ...
... Constitution , and he worked for its rati- fication . Dickinson College in Carlisle , Pennsylvania , was named for him . " The Liberty Song " was wildly popular in the colonies . It was sung virtu- ally everywhere - on public occasions ...
... constitution , and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation : -For quartering large bod- ies of armed troops among us : -For protecting them , by a mock Trial , from punishment for any ...