From The Heritage Foundation and National Affairs:
The Constitution/Civil Liberties
The Saviors of the Constitution
by William Schambra
National Affairs
January 05, 2012
Although the Tea Party has drawn scorn for its alleged anti-intellectualism and ahistoricism, its understanding of the Constitution — as an instrument that can limit democracy while at the same time being fully democratic — reflects an intellectually respectable and historically grounded view of the American founding. If the Tea Party’s reverence for the founders’ Constitution also kindles in Americans an appreciation for the men who, in the summer of 1912, defended that Constitution in one of its moments of greatest peril, so much the better.
URL: www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-saviors-of-the-constitution
The Constitution/Civil Liberties
The Saviors of the Constitution
by William Schambra
National Affairs
January 05, 2012
Although the Tea Party has drawn scorn for its alleged anti-intellectualism and ahistoricism, its understanding of the Constitution — as an instrument that can limit democracy while at the same time being fully democratic — reflects an intellectually respectable and historically grounded view of the American founding. If the Tea Party’s reverence for the founders’ Constitution also kindles in Americans an appreciation for the men who, in the summer of 1912, defended that Constitution in one of its moments of greatest peril, so much the better.
URL: www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-saviors-of-the-constitution
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