Fatal Conditions
The death of every human society, including religious ones, develops from its birth defects. America’s is an innate “liberalism” that makes a principle and a virtue of accommodating incompatible political forces. The ideals of universal suffrage combined with Constitutional checks and balances cannot restrain determined seditionists acting upon a populace with insufficient moral fiber, as people like John Adams understood at the founding.
S. M. Hutchens is a senior editor and longtime writer for Touchstone.
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