By that sacred instrument we were declared “one people,” with liberty and equality for all, and then, fixing forever the rights of citizenship, it was announced that all just government was derived only from “the consent of the governed.” Come weal or woe, that great Declaration must stand forever.
Sumner asserts that the Declaration of Independence establishes the principles of liberty and equality for all citizens.
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