Laws empowered founding figures to commit evils equal in scale to their achievements

Evidence

The granite of statues conceals the ugly side of “great men” who leveraged the power the law endowed them with to commit great evils, unforgivable evils that stand alongside foundational nation-making achievements. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1108

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s ongoing work on settler-colonial founding figures, e.g., Thomas Jefferson’s simultaneous authorship of liberty rhetoric and slave-owning — builds toward the juxtaposition with the Qur’an in the adjacent paragraph.