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Walter Isaacson: Gov’t is based on ‘We the People…it’s not based on the divine right of kings’
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10:55Now PlayingHistorian Walter Isaacson says the second sentence of The Declaration of Independence is the greatest sentence ever written and explains why in his new book. “That sentence influences everything,” Isaacson tells Ali Velshi. ”Getting people to participate based on that simple mission statement, I think could bring the pendulum back so that we wouldn't be as fractured as we are now,” he said.
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