Patriotism that’s aggressive ?
The major assumption underlying the statement made in the first sentence of the declaration is that by "All men are created equal" Thomas Jefferson was referring mostly to white men, since many of the Founding Fathers owned slaves.
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Hayes in 1876 and Benjamin Harrison in 1888—became president without winning the popular vote. In the 1824 election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, Jackson won the popular vote but neither won a majority of Electoral College votes.
Texans wanted the freedom of religion and wanted to establish cotton plantations using slave labor. mexico forbid slavery and they were a catholic country whereas american settlers were protestant.