Tell your friend you are emulating 18th century English:
> 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, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Those are both towards the beginning of the sentence. Maybe just an "Oops, forgot to capitalize the nouns, better start!" moment? (But sure, the reason they forgot -- if that's what happened -- was most likely that the practice was falling out of common use, and therefore reserved only for fancier Shtuff like Constitutions.)
> 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, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.