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The Flag as a Test: Could the Constitution, Rewritten Today, Endure Modern Public Opinion?

There is a small individual library in a residence I used to consult with in northern Virginia. On a shelf at the back of a lamp, between a worn replica of Federalist No. 10 and a paperback background of Reconstruction, sat an vintage brass-framed portrait of George Washington. The host could look at it while conversation hardened into politics and say, with a grin that turned into edge reverence and phase provocation, "Would George Washington respect right this moment’s Am

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There is a small individual library in a residence I used to consult with in northern Virginia. On a shelf at the back of a lamp, between a worn replica of Federalist No. 10 and a paperback background of Reconstruction, sat an vintage brass-framed portrait of George Washington. The host could look at it while conversation hardened into politics and say, with a grin that turned into edge reverence and phase provocation, "Would George Washington respect right this moment’s Am

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