The Long Clasp (Post 4)

*** The Challenge             Human nature—that fecund field strewn as well with all the seeds of noxious weeds and nettles as with those of all perfumy petals and productive harvest—ever works at odds with social good.             “Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition”  “the ambition and jealousy of each other”  “preconceived jealousies and fears”  “glory,Continue reading “The Long Clasp (Post 4)”

The Long Clasp (Post 3)

** The Aspiration Between the first and last phrases of the Constitution’s mission statement—its Preamble—are the following six phrases, which, in fact, list the long-range goals, the desired outcomes that lay behind the system of governance set out within the document: in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provideContinue reading “The Long Clasp (Post 3)”

The Long Clasp (Post 2)

*The Idea Ask a thousand US citizens, or a thousand thousand, to catalogue some of those ideas, and sure to be included on every list will be Freedom and Liberty; on nearly every list in one form or another, the Right to be left alone to do as you please, to worship as you please,Continue reading “The Long Clasp (Post 2)”