 This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no power to confer such a boon....  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 2191887Full view - About this book
 | Waldo Warder Braden - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 278 pages
...did consider all men created equal— equal, with certain inalienable rights among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This they said...did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all men were then actually enjoying that equality, nor [yet] that they were about to confer it immediately... | |
 | Louis Henkin, Albert J. Rosenthal - Law - 1990 - 484 pages
...description of a factual situation, because the authors of the United States Declaration of Independence "did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality."21 It was the enunciation of a high moral principle: every person, irrespective of his/her... | |
 | Kenneth M. Stampp - History - 1992 - 411 pages
...all respects," but claimed them to be "equal in 'certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' This they said and this they meant." One reason for the Chicago Tribune's objection to Taney's opinion was its legalization "of the 'prejudice... | |
 | Edward J. Erler - Constitutional history - 1991 - 144 pages
...June 1857 that the authors of the Declaration did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all men were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet....confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no such power to confer such a boon. They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...did consider all men created equal — equal in "certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they said, and this they meant. [SW 1.398] Americans at that time were reverent toward (prejudiced in favor of) the Declaration of... | |
 | Robert A. Licht - Civil rights - 1993 - 244 pages
...they did consider all men created equal—equal in "certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they...confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no right to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Law - 1993 - 1164 pages
...women are conspicuously absent in his writings on the Constitution or otherwise. 101 [The Founders) did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all...confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the 31 Judge Thomas's arguments with respect to racial equality are not transferable to equality between... | |
 | Eli Ginzberg, Alfred S. Eichner - Social Science - 1993 - 380 pages
...mean to say all men were equal in color, size, intellect, moral development or social capacity. . . . They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality, not yet, that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no power to confer... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - Philosophy - 1996 - 764 pages
...distinctness in what respects they did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that...they were about to confer it immediately upon them. . . . They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1996 - 273 pages
...the duty of Americans to bring their institutions progressively closer to that truth. The Founders "did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality," said Lincoln in 1857. They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar... | |
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