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  2. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    The contradiction between the claim that "all men are created equal" and the existence of American slavery, including Thomas Jefferson himself owning slaves, attracted comment when the Declaration of Independence was first published. Before final approval, Congress, having made a few alterations to some of the wording, also deleted nearly a ...

  3. Declaration of independence - Wikipedia

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    A declaration of independence is an assertion by a polity in a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. Such places are usually declared from part or all of the territory of another state or failed state, or are breakaway territories from within the larger state.

  4. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The text requires no additional action by Congress or anyone else after ratification by the required number of states. [133] Thus, when the Office of the Federal Register verifies that it has received the required number of authenticated ratification documents, it drafts a formal proclamation for the Archivist to certify that the amendment is ...

  5. Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech: Full text - AOL

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    Read the full text of the speech as he delivered it that day: ... When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were ...

  6. Committee of Five - Wikipedia

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    The Committee of Five of the Second Continental Congress was a group of five members who drafted and presented to the full Congress in Pennsylvania State House what would become the United States Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. This Declaration committee operated from June 11, 1776, until July 5, 1776, the day on which the ...

  7. Physical history of the United States Declaration of Independence

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    The first page of Jefferson's rough draft. Thomas Jefferson preserved a four-page draft that late in life he called the "original Rough draft". [5] [6] Known to historians as the Rough Draft, early students of the Declaration believed that this was a draft written alone by Jefferson and then presented to the Committee of Five drafting committee.

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

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    Read below for the full text of Lincoln's address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition ...

  9. The story of the only man who signed the Declaration of ... - AOL

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    Wikimedia Commons. He later signed another oath, declaring his allegiance to the state of New Jersey and to the United States. To make a living, he reopened his law practice and trained new students.