There was a time and there was a place where good people worked together and produced a document reflecting mankind’s better self in the hope that we would make the world a better place and continuously improve on their outline. The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were the beginning of an experiment meant to be refined by future generations. At times, it seems that we have not been willing to take that responsibility and carry it forward. They knew the danger of political parties, made no mention of them, and hoped that we would not fall prey to them.
" … In 1776 the Second Continental Congress asked Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman to write the Declaration of Independence. This Committee of Five voted to have Thomas Jefferson write the document. After Jefferson finished he gave the document to Franklin to proof. Franklin suggested minor changes, one of which stands out far more than the others: “We hold these truths to be sacred and un-deniable…” became “We hold these truths to be self-evident.”
The second paragraph of the United States Declaration of Independence starts as follows: “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.— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. …”
There was a time and there was a place where good people worked together and produced a document reflecting mankind’s better self in the hope that we would make the world a better place and continuously improve on their outline. The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were the beginning of an experiment meant to be refined by future generations. At times, it seems that we have not been willing to take that responsibility and carry it forward. They knew the danger of political parties, made no mention of them, and hoped that we would not fall prey to them.
" … In 1776 the Second Continental Congress asked Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman to write the Declaration of Independence. This Committee of Five voted to have Thomas Jefferson write the document. After Jefferson finished he gave the document to Franklin to proof. Franklin suggested minor changes, one of which stands out far more than the others: “We hold these truths to be sacred and un-deniable…” became “We hold these truths to be self-evident.”
The second paragraph of the United States Declaration of Independence starts as follows: “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.— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. …”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_men_are_created_equal