Our America and Our Constitution (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Our America and Our Constitution (Classic Reprint) written by Zenas Charles Thornburg and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our America and Our Constitution Fortunately for the success of the new govern ment, the men who drafted the Declaration and the Constitution that followed were men 'of trained minds. Still more fortunate for its success those that followed them were trained not only in mind, but had vision to see that freedom in the hands of an ignorant people may be a nation's undoing, and set up a sphere of broad education. Thus equipped, the new nation set about developing its people and its resources. While opening its doors practically to all the world it refused to share in the political problemsof the Old World. It is just as impossible for a nation to live unto itself as for a man to do so. Today American youth know that to prove true to their inherited principle of free government, they must be ready to interpret that principle not only at home, but so far as their country's honor is involved, they must be ready to interpret international affairs with the same sympathetic fairness. That readiness depends entirely on the soundness of their prepara tion for citizenship; their willingness to enter into that preparation depends on the soundness of their patriotism. The challenge rings out clearly and strongly. Surely no boy or girl in all of our broad land can fail to answer it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.