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  2. All men are created equal - Wikipedia

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    The Massachusetts Constitution, chiefly authored by John Adams in 1780, contains in its Declaration of Rights the wording: "All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  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. Thomas Jefferson - Wikipedia

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    According to Stanford Scholar Jack Rakove, "[w]hen Jefferson wrote “all men are created equal” in the preamble to the Declaration, he was not talking about individual equality. What he really meant was that the American colonists, as a people, had the same rights of self-government as other peoples, and hence could declare independence ...

  8. The long, ongoing debate over ‘All men are created equal’

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    Kevin Jennings is CEO of the Lambda Legal organization, a prominent advocate for LGBTQ rights. He sees his mission in The post The long, ongoing debate over ‘All men are created equal ...

  9. 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.