What is needed to create and sustain a Free Society?
Dear friends:
I offer a question for the 4th of July:
What is needed to create and sustain a Free Society*, in which the rights of citizens are protected and each person has the opportunity to reach his or her individual potential?
[The following is adapted with great admiration and appreciation from Os Guinness and a speech entitled:“The Cost of Forgetting the Framers' Foundational Conviction" ]
If you ask modern Americans, the polls show that the vast majority will say freedom will survive through the bulwark of the Constitution. But that was not the full answer for the Founders – yes, they trusted the Constitution but never in the Constitution alone. They believed in what Os Guinness calls the Triangle of Freedom. Read More…
