SUMMARY VIEW OF THE RIGHTS OF BRITISH AMERICA
說“己所不欲、、、”能產生民主，等於說它可來自如"treat others as you would like to be treated"這樣的民間道德說教，這是沒有看到深層的根源。民主的思想本質是基於對人性和行為的“惡”的判斷，而用法律和宗教作為“外部”的手段來制止不平等行為。中國人首先認為人性是善的，因此只希望當權者的自我約束，這是根本幼稚的看法，中國到了今天還是這樣，跟本不懂或不願看到法律和宗教的深刻背景。西方在這方面比中國明顯是不同檔次的認識。這是兩股道上跑的車。如果將通想天邊的鐵軌看成一條 - 這是犯了邏輯錯誤。這種錯誤如果將“猜測”到的真理，等同與“證明”的真理，這完全是兩個檔次的認知行為，這是非常流行的中國人的認識水平。


by Thomas Jefferson, 1774

Resolved, that it be an instruction to the said deputies, when assembled in general congress with the deputies from the other states of British America, to propose to the said congress that an humble and dutiful address be presented to his majesty, begging leave to lay before him, as chief magistrate of the British empire, the united complaints of his majesty's subjects in America; complaints which are excited by many unwarrantable encroachments and usurpations, attempted to be made by the legislature of one part of the empire, upon those rights which God and the laws have given equally and independently to all.