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'That Honorable Determination'
Topic: Society 10:45 am EDT, Jul  4, 2006

American children are not born understanding the principles of their country, and most American college students -- if reports can be believed -- are still largely unfamiliar with them when they graduate. So it is a useful tradition, as the Fourth of July comes around each year, to reflect again -- and again -- on the American political principles famously proclaimed on the original Independence Day, which, as many college graduates know, happened sometime in the past, possibly during summertime.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld thought it prudent recently, in the Wall Street Journal, to offer his fellow Americans the following:

"Our first effort at a governing charter -- the Articles of Confederation -- failed miserably, and it took eight years of contentious debate before we finally adopted our Constitution."

'That Honorable Determination'



 
 
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