Even Steven -- Fundamental Problems with Equality

American Thinker ^ | 12-5-14 | Deana Chadwell

[GeronL]

What is your problem with that statement, I have my own. I don’t think “equal value” was really a concept back then in England nor do I think this is something that is “deemed”.

England had landed aristocracy, nobility, royalty and all that and women outside of the wealthy and royal had little value to society. As far as I know they couldn’t own property or have standing in court at the time.

Meanwhile the Puritans in New England had given these things to women. There are records of 2 ale houses being owned by women and division of property and inheritances always gave consideration to the wife if the husband dies, not just their sons.

[Jacquerie]

<>England had landed aristocracy, nobility, royalty and all that and women outside of the wealthy and royal had little value to society.<>

Good grief but you don’t know what the heck you are talking about. A Briton was the freest person on earth. Colonial Americans were proud of the British mixed and balanced government and loved their kings until George III began to deny them the rights of Englishmen.

[Jacquerie]

The Declaration was Western Civilization's ultimate expression of good government philosophy.

It set forth the theory of legitimate government, grounded in reason, self evident truths that are the foundation of our Constitution.

What follows from those truths is that no one has rights superior to anyone else. Jefferson didn't come up with the phrase or idea. It went back at least to Cicero, and was reinforced by 17th Century British philosophers. The founders were the first to put it to paper.

What they professed to “a candid World,” was earth shattering. It put despots on formal notice that their regimes were illegitimate for the only reason for government was to secure natural rights.

[MeshugeMikey]

Nothing in “nature” is equal.

The tern equal in the Declaration can be read in a number of ways.

we have to ascertain the reason it was included..ad veiw its inclusion in context.

Let us remember that CONTEXT is what the post modernists misuse to cloud muddy and muddle the “inherent meaning of eveything with which they disagree.

nowhere is that more easily seen than the insistance on acceptance...of “:gay marriage”,

framing and context mean “everything”