Posted: 6/9/2018
Today, I was truly shocked at work to find out that two of my bright and brilliant American born and raised colleagues of mostly conservative disposition would argue that these two basic documents of the United States are not closely linked or that one is unrelated of the other.
Was this one of the results of the appalling public education suffered by students of public schooling in the U.S. I seriously fear so!
If an American citizen fails to recognize that the Declaration of Independence contains foundational principles (such as “... 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 ….”) that substantially guided the drafting and ratification of the U.S. Constitution then something is terribly wrong!
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