Jefferson’s rhetorical flourishes justified the creation of a new nation, but the Constitution gave us a government.

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The most important divide today in American public life is not between Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and progressives, or liberals and postliberals. It’s between those who see governing as a spectator sport and those in the arena.