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" 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 219
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Abraham Lincoln and His Ancestors

Ida Minerva Tarbell - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 460 pages
...did consider all men created equal — equal with 'certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' This they...boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. "They meant to set up a standard...
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The Approaching Fury

Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 522 pages
...did consider all men created equal — equal in "certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they...equality, nor yet, that they were about to confer such a boon. They meant to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as...
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Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham ...

Digital Scanning Inc - History - 1999 - 278 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 said,...that all were then actually enjoying that equality, or yet, that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no power to confer...
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Lincoln Before Washington: New Perspectives on the Illinois Years

Douglas L. Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 216 pages
...at Quincy and from his own Dred Scott speech at Alton. The authors of the Declaration, he had said, "did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that...they were about to confer it immediately upon them. . . . They meant simply to declare the Tight so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as...
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent

Johannes Morsink - Political Science - 1999 - 400 pages
..."did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all men were then actually enjoying that equality or that they were about to confer it immediately upon...boon. They meant simply to declare the right so that enforcement of it might follow as soon as circumstances should permit" (p. 6). If President Lincoln...
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Storm Over the Constitution

Harry V. Jaffa - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 212 pages
...authors of the Declaration, Lincoln stated, 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 simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of...
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By Nature Equal: The Anatomy of a Western Insight

John E. Coons, Patrick M. Brennan - Philosophy - 1999 - 360 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, and this they meant" (Sanford Lakoff, Equality in Political Philosophy [Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964], 2)....
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A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War

Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...did consider all men created equal — equal in "certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This they said,...boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. They meant to set up a standard...
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Literary Criticisms of Law

Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 557 pages
...Independence, these men "did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all men were enjoying . . . equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it...boon. They meant simply to declare the right so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit."1" Like Taney, Lincoln grounded...
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Lincoln's Sacred Effort: Defining Religion's Role in American Self-government

Lucas E. Morel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 272 pages
...did consider all men created equal — equal in "certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This they said, and this they meant. Lincoln goes on to explain the limited intentions and authority of the Second Continental Congress...
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