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Equality and the American Founding: A Catholic Perspective, by Dr. Christopher Shannon – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Dr. Christopher Shannon, Catholic World Report, December 11, 2025

Dr. Christopher Shannon is a member of the History Department at Christendom College, where he interprets the narrative of Christian history from its foundations in the Old Testament and its heroic beginnings in the Church of the Martyrs, down through the ages to the challenges of the post-modern world. …

 

Faithful Catholics may certainly respect and honor the Constitution for the relative prosperity and freedom it has enabled. But I do not think we can properly love it.

“All men are created equal!” Perhaps more than any other principle, this phrase captures the transcendent ideal that inspired the Founders to declare their independence from Great Britain. The triumph of the principle of equality in modern Western politics has dulled the contemporary mind to the radicalism of this assertion.

Despite the claim of the Declaration of Independence, this principle was by no means “self-evident.” The stalemate with Parliament over the meaning of the “rights of Englishmen” forced the colonists to appeal to principles beyond the English tradition, principles over which Parliament could claim no interpretive authority. …

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