6 Martin Luther King Jr. — "I Have a Dream" (28 August 1963)

Context: the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; a century after emancipation, segregation law (Jim Crow) ruled the American South; the movement's legal victories (school desegregation, 1954) outrun by resistance. Rhetorical anatomy (name the devices): the promissory note metaphor (the Declaration and Constitution as a cheque returned marked "insufficient funds" — the legal-document-as-broken-promise figure); anaphora ("I have a dream…" "Now is the time…" "Let freedom ring…"); quotation woven (the Declaration's "self- evident" the spiritual "My country 'tis of thee"); the movement from judgment ("America has given the Negro people a bad check") to vision (children judged by character); the deliberate closure in the founding texts — revolutionary complaint as patriotism. Legal themes:unjust lawand obligation — with the Letter from Birmingham Jail as companion: an unjust law is "a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law" (Aquinas via MLK — Jurisprudence 3.1's lex injusta); civil disobedience's discipline (open, loving, penalty-accepting lawbreaking — Gandhi's method, Political Thoughts Unit 4.3's satyagraha); law as instrument and as obstacle — legislation following movement (the Civil Rights Act 1964, Voting Rights Act 1965). Nepal bridge (one line): the speech's grammar — a people appealing from the state's law to the constitution's promise — is the grammar of Nepal's own rights movements (Sociology Unit 7's each).