The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing not a controlling factor in American life.
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
