All men are created equal

"All men are created equal", scilicet "Omnes homines aequi creantur", locutio Anglica "declaratio immortalis" appellata,^[1] est "fortasse locutio unica"^[2] aetatis Rerum Novarum Americanarum cui maximum momentum continuum adhuc manet.^[3] Thomas Jeffersonius his verbis anno 1776 in Declaratione Libertatis Civitatum Foederatarum primum usus est. Locutio deinde allata in vel adiecta ad orationes a variissimis personis publicis in consuetudine civili et sociali Civitatum Foederatarum habitas. Stilus perfectus locutioni a Beniamino Franklinio datus est.^[4]

Nexus interni

Aequalitas ante legem
Ioannes Ball (1381), "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?"
Iurum Hominum Civisque Declaratio (1789), capitulum 1, "Les hommes naissent et demeurent libres et égaux en droits. Les distinctions sociales ne peuvent être fondées que sur l'utilité commune."
Iurum Humanorum Declaratio Universalis (1948), capitulum 1: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights"
I Have a Dream oratio Martini Lutheri King Jr. (1963)
Quaestio est-debet

↑ Jeudwine (1919:27) affert Senatorem Lyman Trumbull Illinoesianum, auctorem Emendationis Tredecimae Constitutionis Civitatum Foederatarum, qui mentionem facit "declarationis immortalis omnes homines aequos creatos esse."
↑ Anglice: "perhaps [the] single phrase."
↑ Vide, e.g., Greene 1976:5: "Perhaps no single phrase from the Revolutionary era has had such continuing importance in American public life as the dictum 'all men are created equal.'"
↑ Peterson 1970:90.

Greene, Jack P. 1976. All Men Are Created Equal: Some Reflections on the Character of the American Revolution.
Jeudwine, John Wynne. 1919. Pious Phrases in Politics: An Examination of Some Popular Catchwords, their Misuse and Meanings.
Peterson, Merrill. 1970. Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography. Oxford University Press.

Knox, John. 1558. "Letter Addressed to the Commonalty of Scotland," fortasse primus locutionis "all men are equal" usus