As Americans gather together with family and friends for the Thanksgiving weekend, many will likely have partisan differences. That just seems to be a fact of life in present-day America. But there are things so fundamental to our shared experience that we can find bases for agreement.

I believe we are all proud and inspired by the struggle of our forebearers to found a new country on the principles laid out 249 years ago in our Declaration of Independence. It is easy to overlook the fact that our ancestors were barely able to found a new nation dedicated to the proposition “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

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