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Originally Posted by alansmithee
The document you quoted is the Declaration of Independance. That document at it's core nothing but a puffed-up propaganda piece, and has no basis in American, nor any other countries' law. And the author was such a noble-minded person that he held 100's of slaves, of which he fathered children with, and could not be bothered to be present in the country for the formation of the legal document, the Constitution.
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Boy, that's one screwed up view of Jefferson. Did you know that he wrote the first draft of the Virginia constitution and in it he made slavery illegal? That's not to say that he was racially "sensitive" in modern terms, but he was less conflicted than most of the other founding fathers. As for the "could not be bothered to attend" crack, he was serving abroad at the time...they didnt have 767s or transAtalantic cables back then, you know.