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Does the US Constitution guarantee the "certain unalienable rights" asserted in the Declaration of Independence?
This notion of rights that the founding fathers had was influenced by Enlightenment philosophers like Locke, Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau and so on. (see The Philosophy Behind the American Revolution)
The ...
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