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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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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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