Samar Ali, Bill Haslam and Jon Meacham

Ali is a lawyer, former White House fellow, and Research Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Haslam is the former governor of Tennessee. Meacham is a presidential biographer and holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt.

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America Needs to Get Back to Facts

Philadelphia had never seen such a spectacle. On Friday, July 4, 1788—a dozen years since the Declaration of Independence—the city celebrated the narrow ratification of the Constitution with parades, fireworks, and speeches. The patriot-physician Benjamin...

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