@kass Nicely observed. Even under that *stirring and *soaring Jeffersonian Statement: "All men are created equal ....." in Jefferson's day, "men" were *legally defined as: FREE. WHITE. MALE. LANDOWNERS. OVER TWENTY-ONE. The *mistake of thinking that "All men are created equal.... even CAN be interpreted by today's standards without a string of pretzel logic that would break one's very *neck, is not only silly, but textbook definition naive. These facts *fully underscore many modern *misinterpretations of the "intent" of the Founders - people presuming a 21st Century interpretation of language written (in this example) in the mid-1700s.