In the October 23 Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan discusses core features of American government and ponders how President Trump fits in. She focuses on the Founders and the constitutional balance they created between the federal legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
The republic they devised produced not efficiency but equilibrium. It established not only a system but a spirit. It has seen us through for 237 years. Are we maintaining our republic? Is our equilibrium holding?
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