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We Are Still ‘We the People’
The Declaration and the Constitution speak on behalf of a people taking joint ownership of their common fate, and they can still help us do that today, writes Yuval Levin. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg via Liaison)
When I became a citizen, I learned our country’s most important lesson.
By Yuval Levin
09.16.24
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Few Americans know that September 17 is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, commemorating the 1787 signing of the Constitution in Philadelphia. But for me, celebrating citizenship and the Constitution together is the right way to appreciate the promise of America. 

I’m an immigrant. When I was eight years old, my parents, brother, sister, and I came to…

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Yuval Levin
Yuval Levin is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and editor of National Affairs. His latest book is American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—And Could Again.
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