No, it's not.
"All Men Are Created Equal" says "All Men Are Created Equal."
It doesn't say all people, it doesn't include women. All men, as written at the time, meant British & Germanic Protestant adult land owning monied adult men. That's why only they were granted the rod given right to vote. Catholics, Jews, French, Spanish, Native Americans, Asians, and, of course, Africans - including free ones - were not only not allowed to vote, they weren't even recognized as humans by the Anglo Founding Fathers.
There were no "proto-democrats" back then, whatever that means. There was no new country back then, for that matter. The US is not a country. It is a federation of countries. That's why it's called the United States of America. States. United. In the American hemisphere.
Despite what those ignorant of history or given to disseminating revisionist partisan propaganda, slavery was not exclusive to the South. That's right, it wasn't just Southerners who were guilty of it. Slavery was practiced all throughout the Americas since the colonial era began in 1492, and states and territories throughout the USA well, you can see in the chart.
How's that for democracy?
