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[โ€“] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The phrase is "we the people."

There is nobody else coming to decide things for humans.

[โ€“] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Of course, he's from Louisiana... The south always was the worst part of American, even in colonial times. The US might have abolished slavery much earlier if not for them. There was even a draft of the Declaration of Independence that critiqued the British slave trade as one of the moral failure of the empire and grounds for independence.