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The conventional story of the American colonists’ revolt against Britain holds that the founders of the United States established a form of government that, although flawed by its leaders’ failure to recognize the rights of women and African Americans, was nevertheless unsurpassed in its promise of human equality. There is, however, a cynical counterstory, which details the founders’ lust for property and their crass manipulation of the colonial population, and characterizes leaders like Thomas Jefferson as having wielded promises of equality merely as deceptive tools, discarded once the Revolution was won, and as having deliberately allowed the United States to be governed by a small, powerful elite. Both of these stories assume that a homogeneous revolutionary leadership employed an equally homogeneous egalitarian discourse to justify its actions. Even a cursory examination of the public discourse from the period, however, makes it clear that the leadership was anything but homogeneous in its discourse, and that overall the relative emphasis placed on the words "liberty" and "property" was far greater than that placed on "equality". A subsequent research un-covered the following materials, which of them would most clearly call into question the position taken by the author in the highlighted portion?A. A speech given by Thomas Jefferson during the Revolutionary War in which he speaks about the Revolution’s goal of providing all citizens with equal access to property.
B. Written statements by British leaders of the Revolutionary period revealing that the British monarchy continually warned its colonial subjects that the revolutionary leaders were making false promises of liberty and equality in order to gain support.
C. Un-published essays by major revolutionary leaders contradicting one another with regard to the Revolution’s position on human equality.
 D. The diaries of revolutionary leaders revealing that the goals of the revolution were defined differently by different people and the leaders of the new government embraced many different ideals and principles.
 E. A series of leaflets written by various revolutionary leaders and distributed widely among the colonial population detailing the Revolution’s consistent dedication to the principles of human equality.

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