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To: rxsid
But the other members of the committee wisely struck out all that language which wouldn't very well fly in 13 slave owning colonies.

The effort would have been over before it started had Jefferson's language remained in the document. It wouldn't have been unanimous, and likely not been issued at all.

49 posted on 06/16/2020 3:32:39 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
Exactly. It's the irony that's the point here.

Jefferson, the evil slave owner white supremacist, actually denouncing the English King for bringing slavery to our world in his original version of our Declaration of Independence.

I'd wager 99% of the citizens of our country do not know that fact.

67 posted on 06/16/2020 3:41:33 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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