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In the opening of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson introduces what distinctly American political thought?

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In the opening of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson introduces the distinctly American political thought of "personal liberty," since this is what the colonists felt had been violated by the British. 
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