> What does "an equal share of governance" mean? To use the Enlightenment terminology of the time, it's that each person has the same "Natural Rights" per John

> What does "an equal share of governance" mean? To use the Enlightenment terminology of the time, it's that each person has the same "Natural Rights" per John Locke. Another popular way of putting it was "Equal before God". Again, this is in contrast to e.g. the divine right of kings. And it was practically expressed (for white male land owners) at the dawn of the U.S.A in terms of an equal franchise. > It's an inherently disingenuous ideology, Well, you're starting from the bogus notion that "created equal" meant genetically equivalent ("more or less"); you might consider grappling with that before worrying about whether others are disingenuous.