![]() For those who believe what we need today is another era of revolutionary change rather than incremental progress, it is a good reminder that incremental progress can lead to revolutionary change. It wasn’t ratified until 1788 and didn’t take effect until 1789. ![]() The War of Independence would, of course, drag on for seven more long years, until we finally won our freedom in 1783.īut the document that we credit most with preserving the personal freedoms we won in independence, the Constitution of the United States of America, wasn’t even written until four years after that-a full decade after independence was declared. Just 243 years ago that the Second Continental Congress, in its infancy and infinite wisdom, signed the Declaration of Independence. Tomorrow, those of us in the United States of America celebrate our Independence Day. ![]() ![]() How to Read the Constitution-and Why by Kim Wehle, Harper Paperbacks, 352 pages, June 2019, ISBN 9780062896308 ![]()
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