Tuesday, April 12, 2011

‘Coming Apart at the Seams’; America’s deepening class divide

Rich Lowry; National Review Online:  “The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would be utterly inadequate to the wants of a different nation. Change the domestic habits of the Americans, their religious devotion, and their high respect for morality, and it will not be necessary to change a single letter of the Constitution in order to vary the whole form of their government.” Quoting 19th-century observer of American life Francis Grund




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