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"The word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart."--Deuteronomy
The central premise of this magazine, from the moment I began shaping it in 1994, has been that the instincts needed to keep America healthy and strong will more often be found in everyday citizens than among experts. We re hardly the only ones to believe that. The crispest encapsulation of this view was William F. Buckley's declaration that he would rather be ruled by the first 2,000 names in a phone book than by the Harvard faculty.
Our Founding Fathers made the same choice. Though it was a radical idea at the time, they concluded that the large body of ordinary ...