Good points. Although it should be easy to understand how Damsky would read his own ideology into the definition. >"We hold these truths to be self-evident, th

Good points. Although it should be easy to understand how Damsky would read his own ideology into the definition. >"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." Ultimately the founding documents are part of a tradition of liberal individualist thought. Racist ideologies and identity politics can be broadly characterized as collectivist and illiberal. Although the founders may not have explicitly condemned slavery, the seeds for individual freedom (self-ownership) were there.