The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.
B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.58
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