Timothy Sandefur
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“Attacks on the principles of the Declaration began at an early point in American history. In the four decades before the Civil War, defenders of slavery explicitly rejected it, even calling it, as Senator John Pettit did in 1854, “a self-evident lie.”63 Horrified by this, antislavery politicians rallied to the Declaration. They developed a constitutional interpretation that emphasized liberty and equality, and they denounced slavery as incompatible with the”
― The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty
― The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty
“Women would then need to resort to the ballot box to request that protection—assuming the majority sees fit to give them the right/privilege to vote.”
― The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty
― The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty
“politics is then basically an act of will, not of reason.”
― The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty
― The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty
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