Will America continue to be America, to be great again, if Americans don't even know their own story? Professor Akhil Amar thinks not: "Without a proper national story, our nation, as much an idea as a place, is in mortal danger."
It's essential, he says, that Americans need to know our story and our documents. It's "more essential for Americans than for other people around the world because we have so little else in common."
We the people are many ethnicities, races, religions, languages, time zones, climates, geographical features, and opinions. What we have that unites us is our Constitution (photo) and our epic founding.
"America remains earth's best hope." But it's still true, just as Benjamin Franklin famously said, it's up to us to keep it.
from The Free Press
(to be continued)
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