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#FallTreasures #Day17 #ConstitutionDay

I always remember that Sept. 17th is Constitution Day! In college, I was part of a leadership fellowship/honors program that emphasized American history and politics. Every year we gathered to read the Preamble to the Constitution in our library. I was required to take a class called The American Political Tradition, which inspired my (pre-Hamilton) love of A. Ham; the tagged book was a required text.

Now everyone, including me, has to act like it. #AmericaMustDoBetter

First volume was amazing. Volume II not so much.

#equality

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Proud to stand with fellow Texans against imprisoning children at the internment camps along our borders! History will judge us for these atrocities. #closethecamps #humanrights #endChildinternment

Are you registered, American Littens? Register today so you can have your say! #register #vote #democracy #nationalvoterregistrationday

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Surprisingly readable. Currently about the history of the settlers. #SerialReader #booksihaveneverread #bigbooks

Happy Independence Day, ya'll!!! I ❤️ my country! 🇺🇸

It might be time to read Democracy in #America ... And I love Steinbeck's Travels with Charley and have listened to (but not read) Letter to America. All the rest are TBR! #rockinmay

Downloaded the #serialreader app after seeing several posts about it (thanks, fellow Littens), and am loving it. History and civics books can be dry, but reading in daily installments helps. This one, however, has drawn me in. Alexis de Tocqueville was a wise and perceptive man, and this book is still relevant. #history #government #civics

How strange does it appear that nations have existed, and afterwards so completely disappeared from the earth that the remembrance of their very names is effaced; their languages are lost; their glory is vanished like a sound without an echo; though perhaps there is not one which has not left behind it some tomb in memory of its passage!

Absolute excellence is rarely to be found in any legislation.

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

early voting starts tomorrow! gotta study up 🤓

"I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run."

Just added this to Serial Reader. No reason why.

As a history/philosophy/ethics major I read (past tense) a good amount of political books. Most are in my parents house. I have a huge TBR stack of political/sociology books here, but if you're looking for an political book, read DinA. Tocqueville's analysis, critiques, and predictions were written 200 years ago but they are still eerily applicable. I challenge you to look at the US & democracy the same way after finishing. #augustphotochallenge

"The older one gets, the more it becomes clear that it is a great mistake not to have been brilliant when very young." -- from the introduction, by Joseph Epstein