The Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress of October 14, 1774 had many references to the colonists' rights as Englishmen:
- ur ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England." The Declaration of Independence refers several times to our "British brethren."
Jefferson and the signers are announcing that they are dealing with the king as equals, not suggesting that all human beings are biologically equal.
It is absurd to claim that the founders established the country for "all humanity."
The proposition in this sense is not universal but applies only to whites, and undermines their claims on their own nations.
-Charles Tallis
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http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/america-is-not-a-proposition-nation/