"It is one of the founding documents in the establishment of our country"
Not really. It was largely ignored by the public at the time and no real efforts were even made to preserve it until the latter part of the 19th century. The Constitutional Convention of 1787 also ignored it, as the Virginia Declaration of Rights was much more influential in the creation of the Constitution.
Reading the Virginia Declaration of Rights, one can see that it influenced both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution:
But the Declaration of Independence had no influence in the writing of the U.S. Constitution.
The Declaration was finally given significant attention by historical revisionism at the beginning of the Civil War when it became "politically incorrect" to refer to the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Sort of the 1860s version of "wokeness"?
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