Charles Sumner: “The great Declaration was axiomatic and self-evident because…”

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The great Declaration was axiomatic and self-evident because universal; confined to a class, it would have been neither.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner emphasizes that the Declaration of Independence's principles must apply universally to be meaningful.

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Charles Sumner: “The great Declaration was axiomatic and self-evident because universal; confined to a class, it would have been neither.”