Thursday, May 21, 2009

David Souter, Now He Notes The Endarkenment's Shadow

Geek with a .45 notes some comments of Supreme Court Justice David Souter from a recent speech at Georgetown University Law Center, which he read at The BLT: The Blog of LegalTimes, and which I repost here.

In a speech at Georgetown University Law Center today, retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter made a powerful plea for re-educating the American public about the fundamentals of how government works.

The republic, Souter said, “can be lost, it is being lost, it is lost, if it is not understood.” He cited surveys showing large majorities of the public cannot name the three branches of government, something he said would have been unheard of when he was growing up in rural Weare, N.H. What is needed, Souter said, is nothing less than "the restoration of the self-identity of the American people." (bold by ed.)

Indeed, the self-identity of the American people is sorely lacking, and has been for some time, now.

Posted by John Venlet on 05/21 at 08:59 AM
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