The next 250 years will not write themselves. They will be written by citizens who still believe, as our founders did, that self-government is worth the trouble.
Dear Friends,
There are moments in a nation’s history that call us back to first principles, and this is one of them. Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, 56 men gathered in Philadelphia and put their names behind a single, radical idea: that governments derive their just powers from God and the consent of the governed. It was not a safe thing to sign — nor was it a modest thing to declare. It was, and remains, the boldest experiment in self-governance humanity has ever attempted.
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