Each year September 17 comes and goes with little notice. September 17 should rank with July 4th as a date we celebrate.
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Mike Parker: The genius of our forward-looking Founders
A republic is a government of laws – not of people. A republic protects individual liberties from the whim of what John Stuart Mill termed “the tyranny of the majority.” Individual liberties are at the heart of what our forward-looking Founders wanted to ensure for their posterity.