Ken Burns: Why the American Revolution is the most important event since the birth of Christ

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00:00Something happened that was really new under the sun.

00:03Thomas Paine says, not since the time of Noah do we have a chance to sort of reset and get

00:10it right.

00:11So you have this sense that there's big stuff happening in these 13 British colonies that

00:16are rebelling about native land and taxes and representation that suddenly breaks out

00:21into huge natural rights that says all men are created equal.

00:26And while Jefferson meant all white men of property free of debt, it's not what we meant.

00:33The conservative scholar Yuval Levin says, once you say the word all, it's all over.

00:38It's just because that all means all.