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Originally Posted by rubicon
The Declaration of Independence was and remains the single most important document ever created by human kind not only for this nation but globally wherein many countries have made attempts to emulate its content.
It is a sad state of affairs that some Americans seem bent only complaining about this nation rather than remembering what our founding fathers created. Yes we are not perfect but this nation is the best the world has ever seen
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I have always wondered why the wording of "
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" were in the Declaration of Independence when slavery was legal in America. Slaves were the property of other people and did not enjoy liberty or the pursuit of happiness.
It was not until the 1960's and the passage of the Civil Rights Act that we saw equality in writing - and still not in practice for many years afterwards in many places.