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. But younger generations have begun to reassess the objectives of the Declaration of Independence, with many realizing that America has far more than just one set of founders. These forgotten founders were likely excluded from history because of their race.
As the 18th century progressed into the 19th, a new generation of abolitionists would marry reverence for the Declaration with fiery contempt for the Constitution. “The duty of every American is to give his sympathy and aid to the antislavery movement,” the Garrisonian abolitionist Wendell Phillips in 1847. “And the first duty of every citizen is to devote himself to the destruction of the Union and the Constitution, which have already shipwrecked the experiment of civil liberty.
.” “America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”,” Garry Wills observed that Abraham Lincoln “was able to achieve the loftiness, ideality, and brevity of the Gettysburg Address because he had spent a good part of the 1850s repeatedly relating all the most sensitive issues of the day to the Declaration’s supreme principle. If all men are created equal, they cannot be property.
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