Monday, February 08, 2010

The Ghost of Wilson

President Woodrow Wilson

"Some citizens of this country have never got beyond the Declaration of Independence. All that progressives ask or desire is permission--in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word--to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine."

Hobbes would certainly agree. I'm not sure about Madison though.

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