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Okay, I'm curious someone who 
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If you see anything unique about
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I'm mainly referring to the 
founding documents like the 

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Declaration of Independence 
saying we hold truths to be 

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self-evident. 
Truth is objective. 

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All men are created equal 
endowed by a Creator rights to 

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life liberty, The Pursuit of 
Happiness, the right, to abolish

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government, freedom of speech, 
the right to bear arms. 

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Do you see these as you know, 
really you Unique things that 

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were really good ideas for the 
1770s or do you think it's just 

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a bunch of nationalist nonsense 
that we'd buy into if we were 

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born in Bangladesh? 
No. 

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No, it's, those are very unique 
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And that's the reason I have a 
flag of America in the back of 

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my studio. 
It's not that I'm American. 

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It's that I totally identify 
with this culture of thinking 

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that America is exceptional. 
And I think the things you 

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listed, there's some meaning 
Lesson there, like everyone 

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created equal. 
I think it's being 

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misinterpreted by the left in 
modern times. 

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But certainly this ID of the 
First Amendment free speech and 

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the Second Amendment freedom to 
bear arms. 

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Those are the unique aspects of 
America that are not quite 

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reproduced. 
Anywhere else. 

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I'll do you will have people 
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equivalents, but the reality is,
the way, they are friend in 

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America and the way they are 
applied by the Supreme Court are

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quite unique. 
And yes, they are the 

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ingredients of success of 
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But America has also left some 
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And these others are currently 
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leftism. 
And the thing is, although you 

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have guaranteed, this Liberties,
all of the Liberties you have 

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forgotten about our, all the 
Liberties that are now subject 

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to the overtake of communist. 
So are until Liberty wasn't 

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mentioned in the Constitution 
and it causes big problems. 

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Problems in family courts and 
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And in the hospital's medical 
Liberty, not mentioned in the, 

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the Constitution. 
And now what do we have a rise 

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of first vaccination? 
Or at least highly socially 

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pressured vaccination. 
So, although the fourth 

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amendment is typically 
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state's ability to do it. 
So, there are some Rises and 

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also the third Liberty that was 
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Size of government just overall 
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that's growing. 
It's not involving. 

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It's not impeding on your 
Liberty to speak but it's taking

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up on every other aspect of your
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And so these three things are 
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American Constitution to make it
quiet, almost, perfect. 

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No, there is something deeply 
unique and valuable, in those 

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words in those documents. 
And I can say that as a Swede, 

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you know, the the people who 
started the classical liberal 

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Revolution, the free market 
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ago. 
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American Founders and the, what 
an inspiration day were to them,

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how we can start a country, a 
new Based on ideas, not on 

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Bluetooth important or an 
ethnicity or religion, but based

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on freedom and individual 
ownership to yourself larger one

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yard at the famous newspaper, 
man, who led the classical 

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liberal revolution in Sweden. 
He had on his office wall, a 

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painting of returnable of the 
signing of the Declaration of 

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Independence because he thought 
that was the most beautiful 

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principles that you can use. 
So those documents. 

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Are important and they are 
important because they ended in 

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the longer run chattel slavery. 
They were the words used by all 

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the the heroes that fought 
against slavery and all the 

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remnants of the traditional 
World, which was based on 

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slavery and on, on feudalism, 
that all men were created equal 

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and they had the right to life 
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happiness. 
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You couldn't uphold that 
inconsistency in the long run. 

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We're us. 
If you talk about off Medina 

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Jarred and and Putin. 
I mean countries like Russia and

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Muslim dictatorships. 
They upheld slavery as late as 

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the 20th century so they don't 
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I think there is a very unique. 
I'm a big fan of the founding 

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documents of the United States. 
I think they are quite unique. 

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I think the American 
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finding sort of papers are 
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They kind of inspire me, even 
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day, you know, sort of, I think 
your first amendment is a 

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wonderful sort of piece of 
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I think the To do America, is 
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up to these ideals and there's 
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undermining it. 
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near of times is projects where 
it kind of has this history 

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project, which tries to redefine
what the funding has meant, you 

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know, sort of is the most 
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call into question the Beauty 
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intellectual Drive. 
That was behind behind what the 

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founders were doing. 
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People find a lot of excuses as 
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longer relevant believe in a 
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World free speech is not 
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all laugh, you know, sort of, 
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I think in America, especially 
in universities people spend far

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more energy and avoid for more 
of their resources to limiting 

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Free Speech rather than to 
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Make it more. 
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me to be a really really 
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And it seems to me that you got 
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This incredible kind of 
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The whole founding process just 
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world, and there's nothing like 
it anywhere in the world and you

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know, a lot of Americans 
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committed to undermining it the 
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And I think that to me is a, is 
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verified that it's happening. 
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means that the very Soul Of 
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It's kind of historical soul, is
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This is a passage from equal is 
unfair by Don Watkins and yaron 

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Brook. 
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born an American citizen. 
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choice. 
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I was born and raised in Israel.
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where I met my wife of 27 years 
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had fought for our country, we 
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only live once and we want to 
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Of Our Lives. 
We want to be someplace where we

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can enjoy Freedom, where we can 
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we have, where we can pursue our
happiness, where we can raise 

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our children, to the best of our
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the world. 
We weren't committed to any 

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particular place. 
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and we said, where are we going 
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on Earth and really is the 
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of all the Ian's yaron 
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decision. 
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much economic inequality there 
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before him. 
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Ron came to America seeking, to 
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and his family. 
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American dream in which he would
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and Rise as far as his ability 
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income earners in America, it 
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to ask and if someone had asked 
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who cares? 
You're on is not unique in this 

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regard. 
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inequality is very low on 
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Even people who live in rural 
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their mortgage payments. 
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hundreds of miles away in New 
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managers fly on private jets and
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At Nobu, what we do care deeply 
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a better life for ourselves. 
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celebrate the fact that this 
allows some people to succeed 

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beyond their Wildest Dreams. 
Then lose sleep over it, and is 

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1931 book. 
The Epic of America, James 

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truslow Adams, introduced the 
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the Lexicon, or referring to 
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life. 
Life should be better and richer

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and Fuller for everyone with 
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to Ability or achievement. 
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opportunity, the opportunity to 
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Where one success, depends on 
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More and nothing, less than 
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we're as a result innovators can
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Limitless human progress. 
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democracy. 
The God That Failed by 

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german-born. 
Hans Hermann. 

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Hapa chapter 13 on the 
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government and the prospect for 
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In a recent survey people of 
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asked how proud they were to be 
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whether or not they believe that
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place. 
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like their own, the country's 
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national pride were the United 
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As interesting as it would be to
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represents a fatal error. 
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I will go on to explain how this
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Source of national pride is the 
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distant, Colonial past as a 
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last example of the Glorious 
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referred to as a system of 
natural Liberty, the ability of 

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men to create a free and 
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scratch. 
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account of human nature home. 
Mo homini, lupus assess the 

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English, settlers demonstrated, 
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the vibrancy and attractiveness 
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social order. 
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accordance with the views of 
John Locke, private property 

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originated naturally through a 
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his purposeful use and 
transformation of previously 

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unused, land Wilderness. 
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They demonstrated that based on 
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property division of labor and 
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Travel exchange men were capable
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effectively against antisocial 
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First and foremost by means of 
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existed, then exist. 
Now, and as Society, grew 

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increasingly prosperous and 
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specialization IE by 
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as property, Registries notaries
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Sheriff's Mutual Defence 
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Jeans and popular militias, 
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demonstrated, the fundamental 
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institution of covenants of 
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ethnically religiously and 
culturally homogeneous settlers 

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led by and subject to the 
internal jurisdiction of a 

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popular, leader founder to 
ensure peaceful, human 

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cooperation, and maintain Law 
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The second source of national 
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Revolution in Europe. 
There have been no Open 

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Frontiers for centuries and the 
intro European colonialization 

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colonization experience lay in 
its distant past with the growth

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of the population societies. 
Had assumed an increasingly 

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hierarchical structure of 
freemen, three holders and 

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servants, Lords and vassals 
overlords and Kings while 

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distinctly more stratified and 
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America. 
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of medieval Europe. 
Were also typically stateless, 

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social orders a state in 
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accepted terminology is defined 
as a compulsory territorial 

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monopolist of Law and Order. 
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feudal Lords and Kings did not 
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requirements of a state. 
They could only tax with the 

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consent of the taxed and On his 
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much a sovereign ultimate 
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centuries. 
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societies had gradually 
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statist monarchies while. 
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acknowledged, voluntarily as 
protectors, and judges European 

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Kings had at long last succeeded
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hereditary heads of state. 
Stood by the aristocracy, but 

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helped Along by the common 
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They had become absolute 
monarchs with the power to tax 

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without consent, and to make 
ultimate decisions regarding the

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property of free men. 
These European developments had 

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a two-fold effect on America. 
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England was also ruled by an 
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1688. 
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arrived on the new continent, 
the Kings rule was Ended to 

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America. 
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private property and their 
private voluntary and 

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Cooperative production of 
security and administration of 

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justice. 
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the royal colonies and 
administration's was not the 

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result of original appropriation
homesteading and contract. 

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In fact, no English king had 
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continent but of usurpation 
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And in position on the other 
hand, the settlers, brought 

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something with them from Europe.
Are the development from 

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feudalism to Royal absolutism 
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the aristocracy, but it was also
opposed theoretically with 

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recourse to the theory of 
natural rights as it originated 

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with Scholastic philosophy. 
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government was supposed to be 
contractual and every government

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agent including the King was 
subject to the same Universal 

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rights and laws as everyone 
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While this may have been The 
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certainly no longer true for 
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Absolute Kings. 
Absolute Kings were usurpers of 

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Human Rights and thus 
illegitimate, hence Insurrection

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was not only permitted but 
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natural law. 
The American colonists were 

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familiar with the doctrine of 
natural rights and fact, in 

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light of their own personal 
experience, with the 

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achievements and effects of 
natural Liberty. 

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And as religious dissenters, who
had left their mother country in

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disagreement. 
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England, they were partially 
receptive to this Doctrine, 

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Stephen in the doctrine of 
natural rights, encouraged by 

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the distance of the English, 
king and stimulated further by 

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the puritanical Center of Royal,
idleness luxury and pomp the 

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American colonists, rose up to 
free themselves from British 

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rule as Thomas. 
Jefferson wrote in the 

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Declaration of Independence. 
Government was instituted to 

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protect life, liberty and the 
pursuit of Of happiness, it drew

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its legitimacy from the consent 
of the governed. 

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In contrast, the Royal British 
government's claim that it could

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tax the colonists without their 
consent. 

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If a government failed to do 
what it was designed to do 

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Jefferson declared. 
It is the right of the people to

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alter or abolish it. 
And to Institute, a new 

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government, laying its 
foundation on such principles 

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and organizing its powers in 
such form as to them shall seem 

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most likely to To effect their 
safety and happiness.