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The Other Document Of 1776
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The Other Document Of 1776
Most Americans can recite the opening lines of one of the two great documents published in 1776. They cannot name the other.In Philadelphia that summer, Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues declared that all men are created equal, endowed with unalienable rights — among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The document they produced became the founding scripture of American political life. It is read aloud every July 4th. Schoolchildren memorize it. Presidents invoke it. (RELATED: The Sacred Call Of Every American Generation) Three thousand miles away, on March 9th of that same year, a Scottish moral philosopher named Adam Smith published a book called “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.” It was, in its own way, equally revolutionary. Where Jefferson
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