In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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James Wood
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The closing paragraph of the Declaration of Independence is among the most theologically elevated prose in American public life. The fifth installment in Casey Spinks’s series is a serious attempt to read it as such. His reading of the “we”—representative, covenantal, theological—insists that the Declaration ends not with a political theory but with a covenant,…