![]() ![]() ![]() In her landmark new history of the United States, historian Jill Lepore chronicles how these truths - political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people - have been "cherished, decried, and contested, fought for, fought over, and fought against."Īs Lepore notes, "every word" of "We Hold These Truths to be self-evident" has been questioned. senator from Illinois, talked about the "group of men" who "gathered" in the summer of 1787 and "launched America's improbable experiment in democracy." With the opening line of the preamble, the Founders, declared Obama, "had made real" the 1776 Declaration of Independence.įor Obama, who would go on to capture the presidency eight months later, the Constitution was written to preserve the "self-evident truths" that Thomas Jefferson crafted into the American creed. With his cogent grasp of American history, Obama, then a U.S. In March 2008, at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Barack Obama delivered a landmark speech on the American founding. "These Truths: A History of the United States," by Jill Lepore. ![]()
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