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Actually there was a very major division in "the Western cultural circle" at the time of America's founding. Most of Europe was extremely powerful if not absolute monarchies, and the exceptions were primarily hardcore feudal. And the United States was founded by heavy outliers for the already...

This too, equality under the law actually originated as a very blunt matter of stripping hereditary aristocrats of immunity to a lot of punishments purely by their station of birth. Quite particularly with the nobles despising the royalty having more of this privilege allowing for a lot of...

The key thing that needs recognized is that equality as a value was originally specifically equality of opportunity, letting the innate differences shake out and the best rise to deserved station, without interference of valuing heritage or race or even whether they are male or female. We see...