The nation's Founding Fathers fought for - and succeeded in - establishing an alternative, revolutionary idea of governance: one that made the individual master, and government his servant. Every generation since has faced the same battle: to go the way of the rest of the world, or to remain exceptional in the world. As Marco Rubio articulates so well, "It's now our turn" ...
"There is no rational reason why a small republican experiment in 1776 grew to dominate global culture and society," writes Victor Davis Hanson, "except that America is the only nation, past or present, that put trust in the individual rather than in the state and its elite bureaucracy. Such confidence in the average free citizen made America absolutely exceptional -- something we should remember more than ever on this Fourth of July."
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