The enduring miracle of the American Constitution by Charles Krauthammer

The enduring miracle of the American Constitution by Charles Krauthammer

Many things are miraculous about the U.S. Constitution. The first is that, somehow, on this edge of the civilized world two and a half centuries ago, there could have been a collection of such political geniuses as to have actually written it.
The second miracle is the substance of it — the way that the founders, drawing from Locke and Montesquieu and the Greeks, created an extraordinary political apparatus that to this day still works and that has worked with incredible success for nearly a quarter of a millennium.

Our beloved Krauthammer will be sorely missed for exactly this kind of wisdom and insight.