re: #89 acacia

… with the principles in the greatest political document ever written - the Declaration of Independence.

The DoI is a laundry list of complaints by a group of men who wanted to break their covenant with those who ruled over them (and had partially funded the establishment of the society in which they lived), to justify what they were about to do, in part to raise support among their fellow colonists. It is among this list of grievances in which we find the notoriously bigoted:

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

So no, I do not agree. The DoI is not the “greatest political” document ever written. It was a partially effective rallying document for a cause.