“Created equal” means that they are all endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.”
I would have preferred leaving the lie “created equal” out of it.
Simply say all men are endowed by god with certain inaliable attributes such as life, liberty and the desire to pursue their happiness. I wouldn’t even use the word “right” which has no easily understood meaning.
“Created equal” is obviously not true and it sets up expectation impossible to fulfill and inevitably leads to all the egalitarian crap that we’re seeing shoved down our throat today.
‘I would have preferred leaving the lie “created equal” out of it.’
Yeah, I’m sure the Left would have seized on something else to subvert our culture, but that phrase made it terribly easy on them. The Founders knew what they meant. They did not know about the twisting word games that were to come. In their day, if you went too far, it was pistols at dawn.