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America’s Unfinished Equality Revolution | Salt Lake City News
America’s 250th birthday sparks reflection on its messy, evolving journey toward greatness. From Jefferson’s original Declaration—bold but imperfect—to the final, iconic version that cemented equality as a national ideal, the document’s evolution mirrors the nation’s struggle to live up to its promises. Even when the founders couldn’t fully realize equality, they chose to enshrine it as a guiding truth. As Lincoln noted, they could’ve secured independence without it—but they didn’t. They chose to “embalm” the ideal, making it the heartbeat of a nation still striving, imperfectly, to fulfill…
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