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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JackGiantkiller" data-source="post: 1917873" data-attributes="member: 5080">"We hold these truths to be self evident, 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."The men who wrote these lines, and instituted a Republic here in the America's thereafter, enfranchised only men. Many of them, if not most, were slave owners. Most of them were wealthy landowners, intelligentsia, and somewhat contemptuous of the common man. Read their own writings, if you doubt me. Read the Declaration of Independance in its entirety. Then read the Magna Carta. It makes very similar guarantees, again, only to free men...in the year 1215 AD. Which is firmly medieval, firmly historical, and still firmly feudal.Then do your research on the sometimes oppressive nature of the Venetian Republic, the Spartan Republic, and the Roman Republic, as opposed to the freedoms given by the Magna Carta, or the ways in which pre-Roman Celtic monarchs and some Dark Ages monarchs were and were not allowed to treat their people.Freedom is not limited to republics, nor is oppression limited to principalities.</blockquote>