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Article: Clarifying the Declaration.(LETTERS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 6, 2006
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Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Two otherwise fine columns ran recently that gave somewhat misleading interpretations of the meaning of equality in the Declaration of Independence. Edward Hudgins, in his Monday Commentary column "Birthday blips," equated equality with free will. He wrote: "Therein we find our real equality. We each have a free will and rational capacity to direct and take charge of our own lives."
On Tuesday, Jay Ambrose in his Commentary column, "Iconoclasts and the Fourth," equated equality with freedom generally. He writes: "By 'equality,' we are told, they did not mean that our abilities were equal, but that no one was entitled to boss ...