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The Equality Premise

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The American civil-rights argument opens from Jefferson's premise: "all men are created equal," endowed with "unalienable Rights" — a standard the nation could be held to.

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The Declaration's sentence outran its signers: each movement since has read the promise back to the country that wrote it.

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