A Patriotism Measured in Work, Memory, and the American Experiment
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of ordinary people — farmers, printers, merchants, and tradesmen — declared that human beings have the right to shape their own destiny. They wrote it plainly, without ornament or apology: that all people are created equal, that rights come from God and not from kings, and that free communities have the authority to govern themselves. Those words launched the American experiment, a test of whether a nation…
