Celebrating a quarter millennium of exceptionalism.
Two an a half centuries ago, a provincial people on the edge of a vast continent declared something astonishingly radical: That government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.
These brave patriots, farmers, bankers, merchants, frontiersmen, did not merely protest taxation or quarrel with imperial policy. They announced to the world that political authority itself rests NOT in dynasty, NOT in inherited rank and NOT in force, but in the God-given rights of the governed themselves.
Those people were prepared for Independence.
Are we still those people today?
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