And I was thinking the other day, what would the Founders think if they visited us today? Well, they would see that slavery had been abolished. They would see that Americans without land and then women and then the descendants of slaves had secured voting rights. That American leadership in science and discovery had propelled knowledge and technology to unimaginable heights. They would see that the United States had become the superpower that defeated Nazism and communism. (02:42–02:48)
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Asserts that voting rights were secured for landless Americans, women, and descendants of slaves.
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