E Puribus Unum --> Governance and Politics 6/4/5
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I've been tempted over the last several minutes to wonder whether e pluribus unum is any longer an apt motto, at least in the sense the Founding Fathers had. Having succumbed to the temptation, I now ask. I think I am pushed to ask the question, in part, by Matt Miller's OpEd in today's NYT; Is Persuasion Dead?
Do the recent battles in the Senate regarding the process of advise and consent on the judiciary represent e pluribus unum? I hardly think so.
My view of e pluribus unum is that it represents a melding of the best and brightest of the kaleidoscope of cultures that have found their way to our shores. The unum is not predefined. It emerges from a sense of understanding and compromise.
James Drogan
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