>>> sawicky at bellatlantic.net 08/21/01 05:14PM >>>
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If we stipulate that all men are created equal but our definition of "all men" is altered subsequently, the 'created equal' part gains wider currency. This has in fact occurred, albeit in fits and starts, for the past 200 years. Anybody who thinks the idea of 'equal protection under the law' has no importance doesn't know much.
mbs
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CB: The Declaration of Independence was a revolutionary notion, and Jefferson had enough props not to get his head cut off when he was in Paris.
When Lincoln entered Richmond, he was guarded by a troop of Black soldiers (!)
The proletariat are an urban people , but we aim to end the antagonism between city and country. Workers and peasants of Brooklyn unite ! The metropolis is exciting , but get your thrills another way.
CPUSA ! CPUSA ! hooray, hooray, hooray !!!
> Charles Brown wrote:
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> >CB: Have we had anybody in Virginia close to our side since Thomas
Jefferson ?
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> The anti-urban slaveholder/individualist? How, except in the fevered
> fantasies of the CPUSA, is he on "our" side?
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> Doug
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For an outline of Jefferson's back of the envelope style accountings
on the depreciation costs of a slave see Garry Wills' "Inventing
America" pages 145-148, have a trash can or barf bag handy.
Ian