and is there- the practice leaves something to be desired. Allen and Lloyd's inclusion of Mercy Otis Warren's comment that "The desire of distinction is inherent in the bosom of man, notwithstanding the equality of nature with which he was endowed" (Allen & Lloyd 294) is telling in proving my second assumption.
Which brings us to that second point- the fact that it is, for the most part, upper middle and middle class thinkers and political activists who built, controlled, and somehow, dismantled the ideals of Liberalism in Western civilization. It is the nature of unequals to join together philosophically and still be poles apart in terms of background and wealth. Rousseau was one of the first to take notice of this "inequality of man"- far more than Machiavelli who found that benevolent Princes with the priority of survival of their reign and dynasty needed the common people and vice versa. Rousseau called a second form of inequality "moral or political inequality, because it depends on a kind of convention, and is established or at least authorized b
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