"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What a paragraph! This sparse, 52-word opening of our Constitution did not merely launch a fledgling nation--but a bold experiment in democratic idealism.
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Hightower and co-editor/publisher Phillip Frazer at Spring Lake, NJ, June 6 2007. They first met at this same spot 12 years ago, when they... [read more]
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Photo op: Hightower and Frazer