When the American founders spoke of a manifest destiny, they
meant that America should set the example of how to be free.
Sometimes we
forget about that. I doubt Madison or Hamilton would copy the U.S. Constitution
for any other nation.
Instead, they would follow the pattern explained by Tocqueville to his fellow Frenchmen:
"Let us look to America, not in order to make a servile copy
of the institutions that she has established, but to gain a clearer view of the
polity that will be best for us; let us look there less to find examples than
instruction; let us borrow from her principles, rather than the details, of her
laws.
"The laws of the French republic may be, and ought to be in many cases,
different from those which govern the United States; but the principles on
which the American constitutions rest, those principles of order, of the
balance of powers, of true liberty, of deep and sincere respect for right, are
indispensable to all republics; they ought to be common to all; and it may be
said beforehand that wherever they are not found, the republic will soon have
ceased to exist."
In our day we need a rekindling of deep study on these
things:
- The principles of order
- The principles of the balance of powers
- The principles of true liberty
- The principles of deep and sincere respect
for right
These are still the hope of freedom in America and
everywhere else in the world. Yet we have lost sight of exactly what these
principles are.
They should be studied by every citizen and every youth in
America, and anywhere else that believes in or wants freedom.
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