Second sentence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator ...
Last sentence:
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence...
I think that bastion of liberalism, the 9th Circuit court should make another Pledge of Allegience ruling with respect to The Declaration of Independence.
I assume the highlighted words were added by fundamentalists in the 1950s. No way our founding fathers would invoke a reference to a divine Providence or Creator
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