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wolverine [178]
4 years ago
5

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

hs to be self-evident"?
History
1 answer:
Margarita [4]4 years ago
7 0
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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