"The men who wrote the Declaration of Independence took a revolutionary stand against monarchy, the idea that some people were better than others and had a right to rule. They asserted as “self-evident” that all people are created equal... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-9-2025 - ThreadSky

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"The men who wrote the Declaration of Independence took a revolutionary stand against monarchy, the idea that some people were better than others and had a right to rule. They asserted as “self-evident” that all people are created equal...

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kurtseitz.bsky.social•2 days ago

"and that God and the laws of nature have given them certain fundamental rights. Those include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The role of government was to make sure people enjoyed these rights, they said, and thus a government is legitimate only if people consent to that government...

kurtseitz.bsky.social•2 days ago

"For all that the founders excluded Indigenous Americans, Black colonists, and all women from their vision of government, the idea that the government should work for ordinary people rather than nobles and kings was revolutionary...

kurtseitz.bsky.social•2 days ago

"By the 1850s, elite southerners, whose fortunes rested on the production of raw materials by enslaved Black Americans, worked to take over the government and to get rid of the principles in the Declaration of Independence...

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"In the 1890s the rise of industry led to the concentration of wealth at the top of the economy, and once again, wealthy leaders began to abandon equality for the idea that some people were better than others...

kurtseitz.bsky.social•2 days ago

"As industrialists gathered the power of the government into their own hands, people of all political parties once again came together to reclaim American democracy...

kurtseitz.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Roosevelt ushered in the Progressive Era with government regulation of business to protect the ability of individuals to participate in American society as equals. The rise of a global economy in the twentieth century repeated this pattern...

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