What does conceived in liberty mean? refering to gettysburg address?

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question refers to abe lincolns gettysburg address. What does conceived in liberty mean?

Answer 1

Hey Brian,

The United States was intentionally thought out politically, culturally, and humanistically. Conceived in Liberty means that the creation of the US was designed for our freedoms of choice, speech, and the persuit of happiness. That is the way the government was designed, to protect these liberties. That was a concept not used anywhere prior to the US.

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What does conceived in liberty mean? refering to gettysburg address?
question refers to abe lincolns gettysburg address. What does conceived in liberty mean?

Answer 4

The ability of Lincoln to use the English language for the expression of noble sentiments has probably never been surpassed. He was sensative to the implications of every word, and each was chosen with the utmost care.

Conception precedes even gestation, and he chose impute liberty as an integral part of the nation even before it was a state.
Note that his says "a new nation" not a new country or political entity, but a nation of people bound by a common history, language and spiritual interpretation A new nation of people unlike any other, had been chosen as defendants in the world's greatest trial of an ideal.

The aristocratic heads of Europe's monarchies had laughed at the very idea that ordinary people could govern themselves without a monarch and a rulling class. The Civil War regaled them as the proof that their prediction of chaos and collaps was being realized.

Lincoln saw the preservation of the union as a matter of world significance, and he asked his people to resolve that this "last great hope of mankind," "government of the people, for the people and by the people, shall not perish from the earth." If the Union offered the world a successful example, there was hope for democracy, if the war was lost, the monarchist would be justifies and democracy lost with the breakup of the Union.

Lincoln, in his profound wisdom, elevated our struggle to a struggle for principles and ideals that would and have effected the entire globe.

God! How I worship that man's memory.

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Definition Of Conceived

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The answer to your question is rooted in history. Refer back to the declaration of independence--a delightfully seditious document written with the memories of escape from oppression that drove so many of our original settlers to our shores. (150 yrs or so prior to the revolutionary war) Sadly the oppression of various peoples did not end with their move across the big pond. The govn't in question began retaking the new found freedoms experienced by our early settlers. The tyrants began forcing taxes, rules, and ridiculous regulations average people were unable to meet and still support families. It was under these circumstances a new nation was CONCEIVED !The implication of the term conceived also implies giving birth which is what the revolutionary war did---it gave Birth to a Nation!

If all of this has a familiar ring and a modern application please consider the adage: Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it. (paraphrased) I do wish I could remember exactly who said those words for he was a wise man.

Answer 7

It's guff.
I don't think Lincoln was very clear in his ideas of gestation. If it's 87 years, why 'our FATHERS'? And what does 'conceived in' mean as compared with 'brought forth'? And 'dedicated to' what? A 'proposition'? Ah, come on ...

Answer 8

he was referring to the fact that the national government was going to prevail and ensure the preservation of the union,thus laying the path that the nation was the most important fact of America ,not the individual states.when the 13 colonies broke from England that was the original birth of freedom,now with the affirmation of the federal government as the supreme law in the land,America would see a second birth of freedom for all Americans.

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That's a good point

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born free,,, this country was begun and inhabited by those who wished to escape various other forms of non democratic government

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