Conservative scholar Harry Jaffa, a significant influence on the thinking of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas about the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln and natural law, died last month at the age of 96.
“We owe a debt of immeasurable gratitude to Harry Jaffa for recovering for us the true Lincoln and for helping us to remember our sacred heritage: Our nation’s founding devotion to the truth of human equality and liberty, a truth applicable to all men at all times,” Thomas said in a 1999 tribute to Jaffa at the Claremont Institute, where Jaffa worked and taught.
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