That's backwards projecting the current view to then. At the time it was seen as a union of sovereign states; Massachusetts had it's own state church and was ethnically distinct from Virginia.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @zackmdavis and
It may have been ethnically distinct but the principle AFAIK was "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."
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon and
Also: "[British King] has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither"
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon and
This is civic nationalism straight from the declaration of independence. I admit that the race equality thing is ahistorical though. In the 1780s it was self-evident to people that different races were very, very different.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK and
Yeah, they only believed in allowing in people who were genetically very close to them. Franklin argued strenuously against even allowing the swarthy Germans in. Benjamin Franklin: smarter than every single elite ruling us today.
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Replying to @17cShyteposter @CovfefeAnon and
What was his problem with Germans?
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There's a lot of humor in the fact that past figures who are never read directly and are only read about are often the men who made the correct prediction and snippets of actually predictive quotes get eternal mockery
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