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4 January, 03:13

Why did Benjamin Franklin change Thomas Jefferson's original phase of "We hold these truths to be sacred" to "We hold these truths to be self-evident"?

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  1. 4 January, 03:41
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    That is because using the word sacred has a religious connotation while self-evident has one based on rationality. It was based on Locke and Hume who claimed that truths that are self-evident are easily understood by anyone reasonable and that this is one such truth because it is rational and reasonable.
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