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How have the words and ideas in the Declaration of Independence impacted human rights around the world?

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A New York Times best-selling book by Jon Meacham with selections from Jefferson’s writing on the covenant between a government and its citizens and comments by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Frederick Douglass, Carl Sagan, and other American presidents.