Pauline Maier, in American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1997), argues that the creation of the Declaration of Independence was the culmination of the colonists’ ideals and other working documents from colonies. In addition, by including over looked documents from the era, Maier tries to alter the discourse of the way we look at the document itself. Maier in the second chapter she utilizes state and local declarations of independence as her primary sources to prove her point that the language that is found in the actual Declaration of Dependence. She also uses letters between people such as, John Adams and John Warren, Silas Deane and his wife, Samuel Adams to his wife. Through
