{"id":4066,"date":"2007-11-23T11:12:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T17:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=4066"},"modified":"2019-10-13T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T18:46:54","slug":"whatever-happened-to-we-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/whatever-happened-to-we-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened to ‘We the People’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>By <\/strong>Thom Hartmann<\/strong>, Berrett-Koehler Publishing<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following is an excerpt from Thom Hartmann’s new book, Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America’s Original Vision<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

We the people<\/p>\n

The traditional American liberal story is the story of We the People.<\/p>\n

As Americans, the most important part of our social identity is our role as citizens. To be a citizen means to be part of, and a de- fender of, the commons of our nation. The water we drink, the air we breathe, the streets we drive on, the schools that we use, the departments that protect us — these are all the physical commons. And there are also the cultural commons — the stories we tell ourselves, our histories, our religions, and our notions of ourselves. And there are the commons of our power systems (in the majority of American communities), our health-care system (stolen from us and privatized over the past twenty-five years, our hospitals in particular used to be mostly nonprofit or run by mostly city or county governments), and the electronic commons of our radio and TV spectrum and the Internet.<\/p>\n

Most important for citizenship is the commons of government — the creation and the servant of We the People.<\/p>\n

Franklin D. Roosevelt understood this commons. In his “Four Freedoms” speech, he said, “Necessitous men are not free men.” Hungry people aren’t free people, no matter what you want to call them. Hungry people can’t be good citizens: they’re too busy taking care of the hungry part of themselves to care about the citizen part.<\/p>\n

(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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