Historians have generally accepted McKean's version of events, arguing that the famous signed version of the Declaration was created after July 19, and was not signed by Congress until August 2, 1776.
No one reading Rosmarie Waldrop would think that she had no problem with the declaration 'All men are created equal.' But, with N+0, you don't always know what he's doing.
He came to America in 1776 to fight in the war for independence, and was inspired by the declaration that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights".
In this view, the Declaration's "all men are created equal" prophesied social progressivism (even if that's not what the signers meant by it) and the Constitution's "we the people" prophesied democracy (even if the document was specifically intended to prevent democracy).
Keep in mind while reading this article and debating, that one of the main themes of the declaration is "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
But the self-evident truth in the Declaration is that "all men are created equal".
There, you are confronted with statues of Thomas Jefferson and enslaved people, beneath Jefferson's ironic words from the opening of the Declaration of Independence, "All men are created equal".
Visitors to PhinDeli's Web site will find a "Vietnamese Coffee Statement" drafted in the form of a Declaration of Independence: All men are created equal, that they are endowed by the creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, the pursuit of Happiness and enjoyment of Coffee.
The real basis for fighting racism is neatly summed up in five words from the U.S. Declaration of Independence: "All men are created equal". But in the U.N. calculus, it is not the equality of individual men or women that matters most.
Please remember The Declaration of Independence, "all men are created equal" and "Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed".
What a difference from yesterday's address, which starts with the promise of the Declaration of Independence -- we are created equal in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness -- and then unabashedly extends that to the struggle for civil rights, which Obama has often shied away from being seen as championing.
