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  2. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    All men are by nature equally free and independent. Such equality is necessary in order to create a free government. All men must be equal to each other in natural law. Jefferson also may have been influenced by Thomas Paine's Common Sense, which was published in early 1776: Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis, 1778. He is credited with ...

  3. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - Wikipedia

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    "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. [1] The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which governments are created to protect. Like the other principles in the ...

  4. United States Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia

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    They did not mean to say all men were equal in color, size, intellect, moral development, or social capacity. They defined with tolerable distinctness in what they did consider all men created equalequal in "certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they said, and this they meant.

  5. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident.' The Declaration of ...

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    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 ...

  6. Column: Sorry, founders, we've never been created equal

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    The nation's founders declared that all men are created equal. It was a noble declaration of principles that had little resemblance to real life.

  7. Filippo Mazzei - Wikipedia

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    The great doctrine 'All men are created equal' [15] [16] and incorporated into the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, was paraphrased from the writing of Philip Mazzei, an Italian-born patriot and pamphleteer, who was a close friend of Jefferson. A few alleged scholars try to discredit Mazzei as the creator of this statement and ...

  8. President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: Full Text

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    Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

  9. Freedom of religion in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees the religious civil rights. [21] Whereas the First Amendment secures the free exercise of religion, section one of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits discrimination, including on the basis of religion, by securing "the equal protection of the laws" for every person: