Building Common Ground America
There are 7,290 legislative districts in America. That’s the total number of elected officials in our state legislatures, both state reps and senators. (There are at least another half a million elected officials throughout the country if you add in mayors, city councils, schools boards, etc but we’ll save that issue for another phase.). Add [...]
The Third Virtue
Alexis de Tocqueville was a French political philosopher who visited the United States in 1831 on a commission from the French government to study the American prison system. While he completed that assignment he also published one of the most profound and influential books ever written about the early days of this nation, Democracy in [...]
Bridging the Great Racial Divide
BRIDGING THE GREAT RACIAL DIVIDE When one contemplates the relationship between blacks and whites in America, one can’t help but wonder what things would be like if America had never tolerated the institution of slavery or if it had been banished by the Constitution. What if slavery had never occurred, if no natives of Africa [...]
This Is What Democracy Looks Like
What Tocqueville refers to as manners in Democracy in America are described for our purposes in this book as virtues. This trinity of American virtues – Compassion, Justice and Faith – defines us as a people. This, America, is who you are. You are compassionate, you are just and you are faithful. These qualities, these [...]
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