Toward a Fourth Founding

History as a National Security Issue | 5 of 6

This is the fifth of six installments on ‘History as a National Security Issue.’ This post considers how our current challenges echo those of the early-twentieth-century America.

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Reflecting on our history, we can see three foundings:

—The first founding had two parts. Our nationhood was acknowledged and asserted in the Declaration of Independence i…