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Without them our Revolution would have been but successful rebellion.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Without them our Revolution would have been but successful rebellion.”
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Sumner argues that without the ideals expressed in the Declaration, the American Revolution would lack legitimacy.
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