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xp1337 posted...

not a constitutional scholar

but the easy answer would appear to be that the declaration of independence has nothing to do with the framework of the laws here

so you don't have to reconcile them at all you can just ignore the declaration of independence when deciding legal matters. the question of why do they seem to differ would be one posed instead to historians/biographers of the founders and authors on why they did that

Legally speaking, the Declaration of Independence is not binding law in the United States. It might possibly have been law under the Articles of Confederation, but the passage of the current Constitution effectively overthrew the United States of the Articles in a bloodless revolution.

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