"The growing openness to members of all the world's races was always possible under the terms of the Declaration of Independence, which, as Lincoln noted, made a transracial principle, the equal natural rights of all men, the basis of citizenship. For that reason, America from the beginning was always a multinational and multiracial society. As early as 1776, as we saw in the first chapter, some blacks were citizens, as were many non-British Europeans."
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1776Founding Fathers of the United States of AmericaHistorical documentsUnited Kingdom–United States relations
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Thomas G. West, Vindicating the Founders (2001), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., p. 167
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