Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12.

This is resistance and reformation on the Fight Laugh Feast network.

The English pundit G.K. Chesterton once quipped that America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed.

Other nations find their identity and cohesion in ethnicity or geography or partisan ideology or

cultural tradition but America was founded on certain ideas, ideas about freedom, about human dignity and about

social responsibility. They are objective ideas, as must be the case if they are to take the form of a

creed, codified in a sovereign standard of law, a Constitution.

It was this profound peculiarity in the affairs of many nations that most struck Alexis

de Tocville during his famous visit to this land at the beginning of the 19th century.

He called it American exceptionalism. Dr. Henry Maine, the renowned British historian, simply called it the

evident genius of the American Constitution.

No other instrument of government, ancient or modern, has produced such stability, offered such freedom,

enjoyed such prosperity or conveyed such hope as this one

document and amazingly nearly two and a half centuries of social, cultural, political, and technological revolution

throughout the entire world, this Constitution has endured, fundamentally unchanged.

All the other European social contracts manifestos,

national charters and constitutions of the 18th century have long since been consigned to the dust

been of history. The lofty ambitions ensconced in the constitutions of Latin America drawn up in the

houseian days of their newfound independence have all vanished all the

nationalist declarations drawn up in the heady days following the First World War

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