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when Duke graduate student Julia Gaffield found the declaration -- only the second such document in the world after the U.S. Declaration of Independence -- while conducting research for her doctoral ...

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They were outlined so eloquently in perhaps the greatest document ever written, the Declaration of Independence ... The great American revolt was a defense of the right of discussion.

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If I understand the debate, “declarationism” is the contention that the Constitution was an expression of the core ideological convictions expressed in the Declaration of Independence ...

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