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

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    In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political ...

  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. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - Wikipedia

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    The first and second article of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, written by George Mason and adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates on June 12, 1776, speaks of happiness in the context of recognizably Lockean rights and is paradigmatic of the way in which "the fundamental natural rights of mankind" were expressed at the ...

  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. ... On July 4, 1776, all Americans definitely had ...

  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. Consent of the governed - Wikipedia

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    "Consent of the governed" is a phrase found in the 1776 United States Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson.. Using thinking similar to that of John Locke, the founders of the United States believed in a state built upon the consent of "free and equal" citizens; a state otherwise conceived would lack legitimacy and rational-legal authority.

  9. Spirit of '76 (sentiment) - Wikipedia

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    The revolution begun by Americans on July 4, 1776, would never end. It would inspire all peoples living under the burden of oppression and ignorance to open their eyes to the rights of mankind, to overturn the power of tyrants, and to declare the triumph of equality over inequality." [2] Painting of Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale (1805)