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- The phrase "all men are created equal" from the Declaration of Independence does not refer to individual equality, but rather asserts that American colonists had the same rights to self-government as other nations1. Over time, it has come to be interpreted as meaning "all people are created equal," regardless of race, sex, or class2. The central claim of human equality in the Declaration had profound implications for the American regime of liberty3.Learn more:✕This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.When Thomas Jefferson penned “all men are created equal,” in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, he did not mean individual equality, says historian Jack Rakove. Rather, what the Continental Congress declared on July 4, 1776 was that American colonists, as a people, had the same rights to self-government as other nations.www.futurity.org/all-men-are-created-equal-239711…By saying all men were "created equal" Thomas Jefferson intended to abolish the system of hereditary aristocracy, where some individuals were born as lords and others were ordinary. Over time, the phrase "all men are created equal" has come to be interpreted to mean "all people are created equal," regardless of race, sex, or class.www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/aspeninstit…The central claim that “all men are created equal” had profound implications for the American regime of liberty. The “self-evident truth” of human equality meant that humans had equal natural rights, equally gave their consent to create a republican government, had equal dignity, and were equal under the law.constitutingamerica.org/90day-dcin-declaration-of-i…
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The quotation "all men are created equal" is found in the United States Declaration of Independence. The final form of the sentence was stylized by Benjamin Franklin, and penned by Thomas Jefferson during the beginning of the Revolutionary War in 1776. It reads: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that … See more
The phrase is attested as early as pope Gregory the Great in book XXI of his Moralia in Job, and was picked up by Thomas Aquinas, Azo, Hervaeus Natalis, and other medieval thinkers. See more
The Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, written in 1945, uses the phrase "all men are created equal" and also mentions the U.S. Declaration of Independence in it.
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• French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789), article 1: "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good." See more• Armitage, David (2007). The Declaration of Independence: A Global History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02282-9.
• Bearn, Gordon C.F. Life Drawing: A Deleuzean Aesthetics of Existence. Fordham University Press. See more• Maier, Pauline (1999-06-01). "The Strange History of "All Men Are Created Equal"". Washington & Lee Law Review. 56 (3): 873. See more
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WEBAug 4, 2015 · The creed “all men are created equal” means that people hold certain inalienable rights that are innate in all human beings, according to the Constitutional …
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