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A well written piece. Still, a point worth articulating is this; The words in the declaration that spoke of equality were impossible even as they were being uttered. Agrarian capitalism, and mercantilism, had come to predominate and already had set the many against the few. Industrial capitalism, which began its rise in the last 1/2 to 1/3 of the 18th century and was taking root, preceded the establishment of the United States, and rendered the considerations of equality in the declaration impossible. There were other things that acted similarly; slavery, treatment of indigenous populations, women's non-rights, etc. If those latter had been eliminated the framework of industrial capitalism would have, on its own, created an unequal gulf between capitalists and labor.

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