founding fathers

In 1814, John Adams issued a warning that sounds today like the tolling of a distant but familiar bell: “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There…
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To the celebrated glory of the Founders, we should subtract the deficit of democracy, the surplus of racism, and the vexing anachronisms they saddled us with.
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Today, the main enemy of democracy in the United States is not Russia, China, Iran or ISIS; it is the Republican Party.
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Now that the country is on the path of impeachment, we hear a lot from politicians and scholars about the genius of the founding fathers and the beauty of the 1788 Constitution.
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