All Men Are Created Equal - Summary
Professor Hinds
English 1113
December 7, 2010
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”. This is a precedent that was established centuries ago to tell the people of its time that there is no man lesser than another. It was set and meant to last for a very long time. Thomas Jefferson was the one who made the phrase famous, but it was his great friend Philip Mazzei who first used the saying through a letter written to Jefferson called “Joint Resolution 175 of the 103rd Congress“, which was later proposed for the United States Constitution. This same phrase Jefferson later used as the groundwork for our nation in The Declaration of Independence of 1776. It was written intending to show …show more content…
It became natural and easy to treat people who were different unequally. But no matter how easy it was America still could turn themselves around and Thomas Paine strongly believed this when he wrote in his political pamphlet, “We[America] have it in our power to begin the world all over again”. It has to be a nationwide effort in order to make a turnaround like this one. In Thomas Paine’s “Rights of Man” he says “A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.” Even to this very day, the issue has not been resolved; the nation hasn’t transcended completely yet. At the same time, Thomas Paine did feel that government intervention was necessary. He felt like the government should help