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Some 233 years ago we made a clean break from the corrupt Old World of Europe. Fifty-six men risked it all to proclaim in the Declaration of Independence:
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 sums it up — the grand total of good government. This was the first...
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Reply # 1
Date: Jul 5, 2009 - 2:25 AM EST Tough?
Our problems are not tough. One just needs to follow the framework of the U.S. Constitution and every problem will go away or be solved.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"
But who did they really mean? They meant white men with property are MORE EQUAL than the rest of us. White women had no rights and neither did black people. Indians were slaughtered and their property taken by white men for their own use.
They even put the slavery of black people into the constitution and its still there for the world to see.
And segregation in the south was "legal" although the 14th...