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United States Declaration of Independence

Fact: Abraham Lincoln made it the centerpiece of his policies and his rhetoric, as in the Gettysburg Address of 1863.

MLA citation: Hirsch, & Van Haften. (2017). The ultimate guide to the Declaration of Independence (First ed.).

ISBN: 1611213746

Quote: "A paragraph published in 1918 that compared Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Jefferson lead to our discovery of the declaration's six element structures..." (3) "Where did he [Lincoln]get this order which he habitually followed in his discussions on law or government? He does not definitely advise us. Neither do any of his biographers. It is, however more than passing strange that Lincoln's early acquaintance with...the declaration of independence brought him directly and intimately in touch with his method of presentation and argument" (3)

(I added the one before to show that the book was referencing another source) phase 3

Xanthaki, Alexandria, Indigenous Rights and United Nations Standards: Cambridge studies in 	international and comparative law, 2007

This book also quotes the same quote in the declaration that I do in the below statement. except with the full line. The book uses this to argue, “Why, them, did patriots turn away 	from the old standby ‘the rights of Englishmen 'to ‘all men are created equal’ if they 	merely sought equality with enfranchised Britons?” (1). All of chapter one talks about 	“the declaration’s inclusive assertion of natural equality” (1).

Richard D. Brown. Self-Evident Truths. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017

“Also, paragraph 2.2(c) of the convention protects Indigenous population from article 	assimilation the qualification implies that non artificial assimilation can be tolerated the 	confusion between integration and assimilation is increased by the language of several 	other articles in the convention that points towards assimilation.” (55) or “integration 	should not be forced indigenous people should be given the opportunity to develop freely 	and to administer themselves...”(55) A few of many quotes that talk about the diversity 	and how people are discussing it. Since it is mentioned that “We hold these truths to be 	self-evident, that all men are created equal” Thomas Jefferson, clearly states that [all] 	men are created equal.

paragraph fact 1: "Why, then, did patriots turn away from the old standby “the rights of Englishmen” to “all men are created equal” if they merely sought equality with enfranchised Britons? The older language might be outmoded, but it was comfortable. In contrast, the new emphasis on universal equality was radical. Yet Americans embraced the new language widely and easily; indeed the Continental Congress did not debate this phrase or make the effort to explain it explicitly. Since John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government helped shape the Declaration, and Locke rested his arguments on natural rights, generations of scholars have, reasonably enough, interpreted the shift to natural equality as an expression of the Revolutionaries’ Enlightenment ideology as well as the necessity of moving beyond English legal precedent in proclaiming independence.5"(1)

Summary: The declaration was made to create equal rights for every person. If it was intended for only a certain section of people, they would have left it as "rights of Englishmen"

paragraph fact 2: "Also, paragraph 2.2 (c) of the Convention protects indigenous populations from ‘artificial assimilation’; the qualification implies that non-artificial assimilation could be tolerated. The confusion between integration and assimilation is increased by the language of several other articles in the Convention that point towards assimilation. For example, Article 5 establishes that governments should stimulate 'by all means’ the development among indigenous populations of 'civil liberties and the establishment of participation in elective institutions’. It is not clear what the term ‘by all means’ entails. Article 7prescribes that indigenous peoples will be able to retain their customs and institutions, only if they are compatible with the national legal systems or the objectives of the integration programmed. The compatibility will, of course, be decided by the state rather than by the indigenous group in question. Thornberry notes that this provision 'constitutes a severe obstacle to the retention of indigenous institutions and is phrased in such a manner as to indicate that indigenous institutions are not valued in their own terms’.29Article 9 is also qualified: indigenous social control systems can be retained, only if they are ‘consistent with the interests of the national community and with the national legal system’. Nevertheless, one cannot ignore that other provisions set limits to the process of integration: for example, Article 4 proclaims that state parties must take ‘due account of the cultural and religious values and...forms of social control’ existing among the populations. The article stresses the ‘danger in disrupting the values and institutions’ of the populations, ‘unless they can be replaced by appropriate substitutes which the groups concerned are willing to accept’

Summary: Equality in the Declaration of Independence since it is mentioned that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal” Thomas Jefferson, clearly states that [all] men are created equal no matter what age, religion, race, etc.

wiki article( original )section

"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."

Wiki article section (AFTER my edit)

""We hold these truths to be self-evident, that 'the rights of Englishmen', but later changed to 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." The declaration was made to create equal rights for every person and if it was intended for only a certain section of people, they would have left it as "rights of Englishmen".