'Our contemporary “cancel culture” has not, that I’ve heard, called for the cancellation of the Declaration, and for that I for one am glad.'
At some point in the recent Independence Day celebrations I was seized by a strange impulse to put down my hot dog and beer and re-read the first words by which the founders sought to define our democratic government.
This is how we started: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
But it feels like as generous and inclusive a “we” of which these the most enlightened-for-their-time men were capable. Note that the truth held is that we are all born equal, among other ways, in wanting a good life. Nobody wants to be miserable. It doesn’t talk about how big or small government should be, but it doesn’t leave room for anything but a government big enough to do what it proposes, to enable the sort of life it declares is equally the natural endowment of all*.
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