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Crevecoeur’s Vision of America

Posted on June 13, 2016 by theamericanplutarch

The French writer and philosopher Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, wondered in Letters from an American Farmer, written in 1782, “What, then, is the American, this new man?” Crevecoeur, a European writing for Europeans, believed that the immigrants who crossed … Continue reading →

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Whose Democracy Is It, Anyway?

Posted on June 28, 2015 by theamericanplutarch

Is America under the Constitution a democracy? The Constitution was written over the course of a summer in 1787 (in Philadelphia: the Constitutional Convention). The 55 or so men who wrote the Constitution did not have mandated authority from the … Continue reading →

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