But such acts of beneficence by the foundation are rare. It has maintained a tight grip on the rights to the letter. Rosenzweig said he would prefer to have the original letter, or even a facsimile of the original letter. Steve Frank at the Constitution Center said that, in one sense, the foundation and the museum were doing everything right. From the perspective of preservation, keeping the letter out of sight and in climate-controlled conditions would safeguard its future for centuries to come.
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Old hatreds, old prejudices, and old patterns of persecution must be left on the doormat of a civil society The Revolution is over. The Constitution is in place. The Republic has not fallen apart in its first years. There is reason to be proud, says Washington. More importantly, he argues that toleration is not a question of an elite extending a favor to a lower and less worthy class. Toleration is about the equal treatment of all.
Their differences are tolerated because their persons are equal. We should think, today, about that phrase that Seixas originated and Washington repeated. It makes a fine model for how we should behave in the increasingly fraught religious tensions of the 21 st century. That means that those of us who are already here may not use our position to persecute newcomers, nor may we use their differences as an excuse for hatred and ill-treatment. But this is a covenant that must work in both directions.
To enter into a civil society, one must make those promises as well. Old hatreds, old prejudices, and old patterns of persecution must be left on the doormat of a civil society—discarded, like a pair of muddy boots, before you come in. Only then can we regain the pride that Seixas and Washington had in a toleration that they felt was secured. Boyd et al. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Princeton, N.
George Washington: A Biography. New York, — Old hatreds, old prejudices, and old patterns of persecution must be left on the doormat of a civil society The Revolution is over. The Constitution is in place. The Republic has not fallen apart in its first years. There is reason to be proud, says Washington. More importantly, he argues that toleration is not a question of an elite extending a favor to a lower and less worthy class.
Toleration is about the equal treatment of all. Their differences are tolerated because their persons are equal. We should think, today, about that phrase that Seixas originated and Washington repeated.
It makes a fine model for how we should behave in the increasingly fraught religious tensions of the 21 st century. That means that those of us who are already here may not use our position to persecute newcomers, nor may we use their differences as an excuse for hatred and ill-treatment.
But this is a covenant that must work in both directions. To enter into a civil society, one must make those promises as well. Old hatreds, old prejudices, and old patterns of persecution must be left on the doormat of a civil society—discarded, like a pair of muddy boots, before you come in.
Only then can we regain the pride that Seixas and Washington had in a toleration that they felt was secured.
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