1.
NPR staff members have read the Declaration of Independence aloud at ______ gatherings every July Fourth since 1988.
2.
Ho Chi Minh placed the Vietnamese revolution into a longer revolutionary ______ while also making a bid for American support.
3.
Without a declaration of independence, American colonists would remain ______ in the eyes of foreign courts and monarchs.
4.
Every person who signed the Declaration risked being executed as a ______ if caught by the British.
5.
Jefferson feared that if freed Black people remained in America, the country would be in a constant state of ______.
6.
The Declaration and the Bill of Rights both reflect a fear of an overly ______ government imposing its will on the people of the states.
7.
The Declaration was really a declaration of ______, because its main goal was to secure alliances with other nations.
8.
The author of the third article argues it is a mistake to characterise the Declaration's natural rights as religiously based rather than ______.
9.
Gordon-Reed compares the Declaration to a great ______, saying its meaning transcends whatever the author was thinking at the time.
10.
The second article ends by saying that the Declaration states a ______ for the republic, which falls to later generations to keep alive.
11.
The United States announced it had left the British Empire in order to join the international community of ______ states.
12.
The fourth article concludes that protecting individual rights demands constant ______ against the powers of the earth.
13.
To justify their revolution, the Americans had to allege nothing short of a criminal ______ to violate their rights systematically.
14.
Jefferson's preamble, which later became the most famous part of the document, was at the time of writing largely an ______.
15.
Although Jefferson believed slavery was wrong, historian Gordon-Reed notes that he never ______ his own enslaved people during his lifetime.
16.
On July 4th, 1776, Congress officially adopted what the author of the third article calls the American Theory of ______.
17.
The Declaration was designed to justify breaking away from a government; the Constitution and Bill of Rights were designed to ______ a government.
18.
The Constitution has been ______ 27 times in total.
19.
The political theory of the Declaration can be summed up in one sentence: First come ______, and then comes government.
20.
President Lincoln, in the Gettysburg Address, called the Civil War "a new birth of ______."
