This is a tired argument. I sorta wish Jefferson didn’t phrase it that way but “created equal” means not radical egalitarianism but that no human is innately subject to the rule of another but the law of nature or nature’s god. Jefferson references our separate and equal station in nature.
This is a tired argument. I sorta wish Jefferson didn’t phrase it that way but “created equal” means not radical egalitarianism but that no human is innately subject to the rule of another but the law of nature or nature’s god. Jefferson references our separate and equal station in nature.