The men who built this country drew, again and again, on the same ancient source.
This week America turns 250, and the day falls on Shabbat. The greatest experiment in human liberty marks its founding anniversary this year on the day the Jewish people have kept holy for millennia. The connection goes far deeper than a coincidence of the calendar.
Two and a half centuries ago, a group of British colonists in North America did something no people had dared before. They declared that legitimate government flows not from a throne but from the consent of the governed, that all are created equal and endowed by their Creator with rights that no king may revoke. They ...
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