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july 4th 
Sat Jul 04, 2009 at 12:31:19 PM EDT
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( - promoted by Teddy Goodson)
Today is the day we celebrate the achievement of American independence and assess how well this 233-year-old experiment is going. And personally, I am more hopeful today about the state of American democracy than I can ever remember having been before.
The Founders well understood that the vibrancy of our system depends upon how closely and how well the citizenry is engaged. As Thomas Jefferson once put it:
If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
Yet for most of my life, I have watched the public - the drivers of democracy - essentially asleep at the wheel.
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