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Rhiannon12866

(252,865 posts) Wed Feb 18, 2026, 05:45 AM 19 hrs ago

Stephen Colbert - Guest Best-selling author Walter Isaacson

A Typo In The First Line Of The Declaration Of Independence? - Walter Isaacson Explains

Best-selling author Walter Isaacson describes the Declaration of Independence as "America's mission statement" and argues that the ideals of equality set forth in the opening line of the document reflected the hopes of the country"s founders, not the reality of existing civil rights at the time. "The Greatest Sentence Ever Written" is available now.

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Stephen Colbert - Guest Best-selling author Walter Isaacson (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 19 hrs ago OP

Amazing how the context of 1776 is as usual ignored bucolic_frolic 18 hrs ago #1

bucolic_frolic

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1. Amazing how the context of 1776 is as usual ignored

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Wed Feb 18, 2026, 07:21 AM

18 hrs ago

Which is to say, no mention of the Enlightenment and the plethora of philosophers and social thinkers the fed the learned men of the time, and "our Creator" is accepted at face value a universal blend. Many Founders were Deists, and that anchor drove the middle and merchant classes that provided popular support.

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