The Jeffersonian cyclopedia; a comprehensive collection of the views of Thomas Jefferson classified and arranged in alphabetical order under nine thousand titles relating to government, politics, law, education, political economy, finance, science, art, literature, religious freedom, morals, etc.; |
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354. ANCESTRY, Equality vs.— |
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354. ANCESTRY, Equality vs.—
The
foundation on which all [our constitutions]
are built, is the natural equality of man, the
denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed
to legal office and, particularly, the denial
of a pre-eminence by birth.—
To General Washington. Washington ed. i, 334.
Ford ed., iii, 466.
(A.
1784)
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