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Honus wrote:
"Jeff" wrote in message
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"an old friend" wrote in message

you don't respect the constitution premise that All men are created
equal

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Only under the eyes of the law.....

You're both wrong; shame on you. It's the Declaration of Independence,
and
it's predicated on the belief that government serves only to secure the
rights that we're all born with.

it is in the principle on which the constitution and its framer built
the govt of the USA

The premise is stated in the DoI, not the Constitution. But I can see all
too clearly that this cause is lost.

no it wasn't but slaveholders were included in the Contienal Congress
It was written a by a Slave holder who did include an anti slavery
clause, stricken at the last minute at the insistance of Mr Rutlegde of

Pedantic nonsense aside, my point, not that it's original with me, still
stands.