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v979v121z9h	Tyler Duane Gardner	Writing Reality: The Master Chord and Wider Views in Antebellum America	1904		.txt	text/plain	292	8	30	In narrating Stowe and Thoreau's struggle to define America's highest priority, this project illuminates the contingencies and violence involved in forging the nation's modern values, while interrogating the limits of deliberative democracy and the possibility of peaceful coexistence. While some politicians attempted to continue the nation's founding protocol of compromising around the principle of unity, others decided that the only way out of the bog was locating a solid foundation—a higher law than the Constitution that could provide a transcendent standard from which to regulate national policy.	cache/v979v121z9h.txt	txt/v979v121z9h.txt