An Extended Definition of Liberty

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This paper discusses the concepts of liberty and independence and what they mean to America. It discusses these terms as they are relevant to the American character and looks at how these concepts, while an important part of the American way of life, are still somewhat vaguely defined and applied in American society.

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"However, the Declaration then, as now, serves as a model of an ideal yet to be reached. The Congress of men who drafted and revised and then adopted and signed the Declaration were white and male, middle or upper class, landowners or lawyers or other professionals. The fact they believed all men to be equal did not include the black freedmen or slaves, which, by Supreme Court regulations, could be considered three-fifths of a "regular" American citizen. There was no female suffrage, of course, and there was no feminine input into the document, even though it eventually would cause mothers to lose their sons, and wives their husbands in the struggle to preserve a liberty which had no solid foundation."

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