“The American Revolution,” a documentary by Ken Burns, has been watched by many people. In a recent interview about the documentary, Mr. Burns stated that the American Revolution was the most important event in world history since the birth of Jesus Christ. He emphasized that our revolution had profound implications for humanity, transforming the notion of equality of all people into a governing principle for nations.

The claim in our Declaration of Independence that all are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights, together with the subsequent writing of the Constitution with the Bill of Rights, resulted in the creation of a nation that introduced freedom and rights under law at a level that had never been known before in any organized nation. This new freedom has been the basis

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