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2713. EQUALITY, Constitutions and.—

The foundation on which all [our constitutions] are built is the natural equality of
man, the denial of every preeminence but
that annexed to legal office, and particularly
the denial of a preeminence by birth.—
To General Washington. Washington ed. i, 334. Ford ed., iii, 466.
(A. 1784)

See Government.