The Uniqueness Of Our Nation

The United States is a unique nation. What binds us together is not ethnicity or religion. An American can be an American by just pledging allegiance to the nation whether his ancestors came here on the Mayflower or the Amistad.

We are a nation that is unified by adherence to the Constitution. It is what allows Americans from hundreds of nationalities, and religions to live together. Adherence to that one document is really all we have. Those tenets expressed by its clauses protects all of us from mayhem. What else do we have that explains our national origins, but the principles…