just want to recommend a book which has stood the test of time for 30 years as a political commentary....Constitutional scholar W. Cleon Skousen named the 28 principles used by the founding fathers in all their writings...these principles were based on the Nature of Man and took this nature into account when formulating the laws of the republic. from small agricultural colonies, the young United States within three years became the place to which everyone dreamed of coming. the union achieved theretofore unheard of freedom, industriousness, economic growth and REAL progress, not the left wing nonsense passed off as "progressivism" today. perhaps this is a good time to refresh our memories as to what exactly did make our nation great.