Present at our nation’s founding — but excluded from its promise

Present at our nation’s founding — but excluded from its promise

In the lead-up to our country’s 250th anniversary, Errin Haines is writing a series of columns to contemplate the complicated expansion of our democracy. Subscribe to The Amendment newsletter. In 1776, a group of White, male landowners in the original Thirteen Colonies wrote that all men were created equal — words that denied most of their fellow colonists the same certain unalienable rights.  The real founders of our democracy were those who to…