Tyrants and Rogues - Robert G. Parkinson

For the 250 years since it was written and proclaimed to the world, the Declaration of Independence, and the words of its preamble—“all men are created equal”, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”—have animated those striving for freedom around the world. Yet as Robert G. Parkinson shows, the men who wrote the Declaration did not view the preamble as the important part; rather, it was the list of grievances that they spent their time labouring over. Here they identified the tyrants... Zobrazit více