... still upheld, if not with slightly more ethnic and cultural diversity than his original model, in the States of today. If we were to suppose there was still an American Dream', regardless of how realistic it is in today's society, or even of the society of the eighteenth century, it would be that which Benjamin Franklin deliberately exemplified, for the ... the Declaration of Independence , (primarily his work, despite alterations by other members of the Continental Congress) arguably the single most definitive code of conduct for American culture in historical, political or sociologica...

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... of the rights of the states verses a sovereign central government. He believed government to be not a means of controlling and restricting the people of a nation, but instead thought it as an institution put in place by the people and for the people. Jefferson felt that both individuals and governments are subject to moral law, suggesting that morality refers to conduct that ... ...

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... civil rights movements in the 1960's, and it is a necessary component in maintaining a comfortable atmosphere for minorities. Those individuals fail to comprehend that political correctness is leftist censorship, an infringement on the Bill of Rights, and, most importantly, that one cannot force the sensitivities required for such a comfort onto another without creating complications. Harsher and more obscure ... ways of expressing prejudice, the factor originally blamed for creating an uncomfortable situation for minorities, arise when speech is restricted, because society collects on t...

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