Reading the Declaration

For next Monday,:Allen, ch. 19-43.

For next Wednesday,: Allen 44-45,  Douglass, Stevens

Implication: " 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"

CONJUNCTION JUNCTION!

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 (Allen, pp. 115-116) – to be pushed