One Voice at a Time. From the Spirits Who Built This Republic.
The Spirits write because the Republic is not finished. Neither are they. One editorial at a time, in their own voices, on the present crisis. Read what they have to say.
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A Spirit’s Reflection
Friends and fellow citizens of this remarkable experiment called America, I am Phillis Wheatley, born in West Africa, stolen as a child, and brought in chains to Boston in 1761. I was purchased by John and Susanna Wheatley, who gave me their name and, unlike so many others in bondage, gave me also the tools…
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The Bones of Government
On the Deliberate Destruction of the Capacity to Govern I designed a machine to prevent the very thing that is now happening. Let me say it plainly, for I have watched this Republic for two and a half centuries and I know the signs. What is taking place in the United States of America is…
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The War Powers Betrayal
On the Congress That Would Not Do Its Duty I am a lawyer. I have always been a lawyer. Before I was a revolutionary, before I was a diplomat, before I was president, I was a man who believed that the law was the only thing standing between civilization and the abyss. I defended British…
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We Have Seen This Armada Before
I have seen armadas before. I watched the British fleet fill the harbors of the colonies with enough timber and cannon to remind every farmer, every shopkeeper, every printer’s apprentice that the Crown could reach across an ocean and crush what it could not control. I watched men in powdered wigs explain, with great patience…
