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All Men Are Created Equal

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The American Liberal System and the American Political System

The American political system which is classically liberal is based upon the idea that all political authority has to be borrowed with the consent of the people temporarily and with restrictions under law. So when Jefferson writes that we take these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal this is what he's referring to. The administrative state and the managerial elite that have colonized it do not represent that experiment, says Michael Wolraich.

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