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Based on the text Defending Rights, what understanding do you gain about Americans' quest for equal rights?

That philosophers were the only people who wrote to defend their rights in American history
That throughout history, people have found different ways to fight for their rights and freedoms
That today many wrongs of inequality have been corrected, but there are still some to improve
That you can find interesting information about our rights by looking at the text features

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Step-by-step explanation:

What he really meant was that the American colonists, as a people, had the same rights of self-government as other peoples, and hence could declare independence, create new governments and assume their “separate and equal station” among other nations

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