THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Bruce Fein) - America: A Forgotten Idea
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America America: A Forgotten Idea As we celebrate the semiquincentennial, we should remember who we were. Twelve score and ten years ago, the 56 signatories to the Declaration of Independence made a break in history. They signed their death warrants on July 4, 1776, to secure unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, i.e., the opportunity to march to your own drummer without fear of domestic predation or foreign aggression—the summit of civilization. The end of government and civil society was to be justice, making everyone’s station in life correspond to character and accomplishments, simpliciter. Justice…Open