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America At 250: The republic that mistook itself for an empire

America At 250: The republic that mistook itself for an empire

By Tim Akano On July 4, 1776, fifty-six strong men signed their names to a proposition so audacious it still reads like heresy: that government exists by the consent of the governed, not the grace of kings. It was not simply a nation being born. It was a wager — that liberty, codified in law rather...

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