Zelizer teaches history and public affairs at Princeton University. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. "In fact, because they are articulated in the founding documents, maybe these views are, perhaps, the very definition of American." "Those of us who fully understand the declaration know that there is nothing un-American about these views," she said. Taylor said some might call her ideas radical. We are in the process of trying to get it remade." "As the document insists, it is our 'right' - our 'duty' - as Americans to 'throw off such a government' and remake it. "However, when reform is not lasting or only brings temporary, minute change to a small group of elites, then that government must be abolished and a new one erected in its place. Non-signers included Robert R Livingston, one of the Committee of Five (who wrote the declaration), who thought the declaration was premature, and John Dickinson, who hoped for reconciliation with Britain.Taylor was also drawn to the line "when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
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