 | David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 612 Seiten
...already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few, booted...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. There are grounds of hope for others; for ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2003 - 304 Seiten
...republicans executed by king Charles II in the 1680s: "[T]he mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."26 NATURAL RIGHTS AND NATURAL LAW What does it mean to say that human beings are "endowed by their... | |
 | Francis Fukuyama - 2003 - 292 Seiten
...already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."6 The political equality enshrined in the Declaration of Independence rests on the empirical fact... | |
 | Gary V. Wood - 2004 - 268 Seiten
...consent. To use Thomas Jefferson's celebrated example, "the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."4 This is what the Declaration means when it declares that all men are created equal. The Africans... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 Seiten
...already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with he founding principles of a legitimate, constitutional...order, and they entail all of what follows. /. Men God."35 This is a world apart from the science of Henry Adams. Just a few decades after Jefferson's... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - 2004 - 258 Seiten
...already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them. I should,... | |
 | Linda Bolton - 2004 - 232 Seiten
...Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove, 1963). truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." It is a promise entwined in the founding violence of a new law, creating an egalitarianism of material... | |
 | Alexander Leslie Klieforth, Robert John Munro - 2004 - 452 Seiten
...Chronology ready laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born, with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god." 1 826, July 4 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams deceased on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2004 - 178 Seiten
...already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. Mine, after all, may be a Utopian dream, but being innocent, I have thought I might indulge in it till... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - 2004 - 178 Seiten
...According to Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration, "the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and...ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God." 3 They are thus left free by nature to govern themselves—to decide what ends to pursue, and how to... | |
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All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted... 
