The Declaration of Independence’s pledge of liberty to all people was only effective if there were those willing in subsequent generations to fulfill that promise. It was not yet a matter of fact in 1776. Liberty required champions — often obscure and endangered — who forced the promise into practice. Within a generation of the founding, Kentucky gave the nation one of the most fearless of them. Cassius Marcellus Clay didn’t fit the mold of an a…
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