http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/declaration_transcript.html
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that 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.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Clearly, this was NOT applied to slaves or American Indigenous peoples at the start. Nonetheless, the language was an ideal that the USA is still moving towards.
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- I find it interesting that NO ONE on the right has addressed this quote from Bush....
- Where do you think we are? (n/t)
- I'm more interested in how the words compare to deeds done in the last 4 years.
- OK
- American Justice: Pictures of an Iraqi arrested and executed
- And you buy that from that source, huh?
- That is what they do to THEIR prisoners. We are just playing the game by THEIR OWN RULES. Nothing could be more fair. (n/t)
- Played well to his base. The ROW is embarrassed for us, for him. (n/t)
- Perhaps you have never read this: