At this time, Northern reformers, such as William Lloyd Garrison and Samuel Chase, portrayed the framers of the United States Constitution as proponents of individual autonomy and capitalist values.

当时，北方的改革者，如威廉·劳埃德·加里森和塞缪尔·蔡斯，把美国宪法的制定者描绘成个人自治和资本主义价值观的支持者。

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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1868, prohibits state governments from denying citizens the "equal protection of the laws".

1868年批准的《美国宪法第十四修正案》禁止州政府剥夺公民享有“法律平等保护”的权利。

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This vision of the founders served as a basis for asserting that freedom was a national moral imperative, and that the United States Constitution was an antislavery document.

国父们的这种远见成为了主张自由是国家道德义务的基础，美国宪法是一份反奴隶制的文件。

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"Every member of every northern legislature, " Webster said, "has sworn to support the constitution of the United States.

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They said they wished to live in peace under the Constitution and the laws of the United States.

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It said the Missouri Compromise was a violation of the United States Constitution, and that Dred Scott was not a free man.

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The founding fathers of the U.S. have probably captured these truths better than anybody, and codified them into the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America.

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Apparently, there will be no discussion of the seditious nature of Shariah, which explicitly seeks to destroy the government and Constitution of the United States in favor of a global theocracy.

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For only the 34th time in our nation's history, the United States Senate undertakes a most careful, solemn exercise - amending the Constitution of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity: dudes shouldn't marry dudes, and chicks shouldn't marry chicks?

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