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33The Eve of the Revolution
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34Preface
9Chapter II. The Partition of the New World
35Chapter I. A Patriot of 1763
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36Chapter II. The Burden of Empire
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37Chapter III. The Rights of a Nation
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38Chapter IV. Defining the Issue
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39Chapter V. A Little Discreet Conduct
14Chapter III. The English Migration in the Seventeenth Century
40Chapter VI. Testing the Issue
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41The Declaration of Independence—A Study in the History of Political Ideas
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42Chapter I. The Declaration of Independence
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43Chapter II. Historical Antecedents of the Declaration: The Natural Rights Philosophy
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44Chapter III. Historical Antecedents of the Declaration: Theory of the British Empire
19Chapter IV. England and Her Colonies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
45Chapter IV. Drafting the Declaration
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46THE ROUGH DRAFT (as it probably read when Jefferson first submitted it to Franklin.)1
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47THE ROUGH DRAFT as it probably read when Jefferson made the ‘fair copy’ which was presented to Congress as the report of the Committee of Five.
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48THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (as it reads in the Lee copy, which is probably the same as the report of the Committee of Five, with parts omitted by Congress crossed out and the parts added interlined in italics.)
23Chapter V. The American People in the Eighteenth Century
49THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (as it reads in the parchment copy.)
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50Chapter V. The Literary Qualities of the Declaration
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51Chapter VI. The Philosophy of the Declaration in the Nineteenth Century
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