Bernie Sanders claims America founded on 'Racist Principles'

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America was founded on the principles of liberty by people who didn't apply those principles equally.  And many of the founding fathers wanted to get rid of slavery anyway.  Vermont, Massachusetss and Pennsylvania IIRC had already become free states by the time the Constitution was signed.

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It was the founding principles of this nation that inspired the abolitionists in the 18th and 19th century and the Civil Rights protesters in the 20th century.

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It was the founding principles of this nation that inspired the abolitionists in the 18th and 19th century and the Civil Rights protesters in the 20th century.

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No, it was groups of people being fycking fed-up with the status quo that inspired them. Enough with the Constitution fetishization already. Those same sentiments existed before said document and will exist long after it as well, for it is universal.

I'm not sure how you could deny that those words inspired people to change the status quo.

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That wasn't even the Constitution that was the Declaration of Independence.

What better place to find the founding principles of our country than the document in which we declared that we are a new nation?