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message 1: by Jordan (last edited Mar 23, 2019 05:36PM) (new) - rated it 3 stars

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Note the First Resolution and its bold declaration:
"Mankind in a state of nature are equal, free, and independent of each other, and have a right to the undisturbed enjoyment of their lives, their liberty and property" .
Does this sentiment not remind one of the creed of the Declaration of Independence with a striking similarity? Perhaps, the radical assertions of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, which presented a similar sort of idea? Was all of America of the same mind, or just perhaps subconscious plagiarists?

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