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The Declaration of Independence

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The Hypocrisy of the Founding Right

I think it's really ironic that a passage that condemned George the third for prostituting his negative which means abusing his veto power effectively over the legislature was vetoed in effect by Georgia and South Carolina right. Now Jefferson has just told us pay attention to what we removed. That's what what's been rejected also tells you. And he says as much right I mean he wrote out that couldn't find the letter quickly but after the Missouri compromise was passed he was like, well there goes all my hard work. He must have known the slavery was not going to get through put this language in they say dude we can't put this in. It's like okay, people will know what you rejected

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