Instruct: Classify a given Amazon customer review text as either counterfactual or not-counterfactual
Query: We Americans learn to laud the rightfully famous phrase, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights' from the Declaration of Independence, and we somehow imagine and rationalize that our revered patriot forefathers would have done away with slavery if only the conventions of the time weren't so embedded and inflexible.