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The Possibility of a Promise-Kept Remains

Regardless of the various faults we too frequently layer upon its design, the American Representative Constitutional Democracy is a thing of beauty. It’s ability to return to the Consenting Governed the possibility of a promise fulfilled is, in itself, a near perpetual promise-kept and one which must never be taken lightly; one which too few Nations afford their People.

The World watches the U.S. and once again stands still with amazement at how, despite our feeble appearance of shrewdness, we still manage to reveal to the world what may possibly be our single greatest attribute as a nation. Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political thinker and historian from the mid-1800’s, stated it best by way of the following two comments:  

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