the Unionist founders never meant to contend that all human beings were made equal in abilities or talents, or that they were born into similar situations. They meant that men have species equality—we are all equal because of our membership to the species—and that therefore, we are equal in our inalienable rights. Disintegrationists, by contrast, suggest that all men are not created equal in the basic biological sense, which is true—and that equal rights, therefore, are unequal. A right to free speech, for example, does not result in equality for a man who cannot speak. A right to alienation
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