Text Pages \ Future of Federalism

in this book from 1962, Nelson Rockefeller cleverly outlines the path of excuses thereafter made by agents of government for "making the world safe for democracy":

The Founding Fathers devised a structure of order for a nation within which free men could work and prosper in peace. We are required to help build such a framework for freedom not merely for a nation but for the free world of which we are an integral part. And we are called to do this with far greater speed, I believe, than many of us realize or admit. Ultimately, the great part of our debt to the past may lie in this fact: the federal idea, so basic to both personal freedom and national unity in the history of America, can now be extended and applied to bring order, strength, and progress to the world of free peoples.

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