Thread by @chbstone2

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“All men are created equal”

Stanford historian Jack Rakove:

This was not intended to mean individual equality. Rather, that American colonists, as a people, had the same rights to SELF-GOVERNMENT as other nations.

news.stanford.edu/press-releases…

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“All men are created equal” did not mean an equality of individuals, but a “collective right of revolution and self-government that the Declaration was written to justify”

networks.h-net.org/node/16794/rev…

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“It was later accepted by Lincoln and most individuals that this was the proposition to which the entire nation was dedicated.”

In other words:

LINCOLN’S “PROPOSITION NATION ” was a lie

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Jefferson began with Mason's statement that "all men are created equally free and independent," but changed it to say "created equal & independent." Then he crossed out "& independent," which left "all men are created equal."

scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewconten…

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All men are created equal

Should this literally be our creed?

Of course...
and we thankfully have made it so

However AL used this as a prop during the Civil War to ultimately help keep Europe out of the war

And in the process he destroyed our Union of Sovereign States

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“All men are created equal”

The Founding Fathers meant that to mean the colonists were equal to the British and had the right to say f@ck off 🖕

#Lincoln and history “professors” (Activists) really pulled one over on Americans with this Second Founding Farce