The modern divide between left and right can be seen as an ongoing debate about how to interpret the Declaration of Independence
“I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence,” President-elect Abraham Lincoln declared in Philadelphia in February 1861, standing in front of Independence Hall.
The previous month, Lincoln had adapted language from the Book of Proverbs to emphasize to a Southern correspondent the place of the Declaration in his own thought. He wrote that “the expression of that principle [of Liberty for All], in our Declaration of Independence…was the word ‘fitly...
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