| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - If Lincoln at Gettysburg meant to convey what was at stake for the future of democracy, as was believed throughout most of the twentieth century, then his opening phrase, Fourscore and seven years ago [1776], his invocation of the Declaration of Independence's proposition that all men are created equal, and his dream of a new birth of freedom must refer to something other than emancipation.
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