In Ken Burn’s seminal documentary, “The Civil War”, historian Shelby Foote opines, Before the war, it was said “the United States are”—grammatically it was spoken that way and thought of as a collection of independent states. And after the war it was always “the United States is,” as we say today without being self-conscious at all. And that sums up what the war accomplished. It made us an “is.”
US Federalism is the Breath of our Democracy.
US Federalism is the Breath of our Democracy.
US Federalism is the Breath of our Democracy.
In Ken Burn’s seminal documentary, “The Civil War”, historian Shelby Foote opines, Before the war, it was said “the United States are”—grammatically it was spoken that way and thought of as a collection of independent states. And after the war it was always “the United States is,” as we say today without being self-conscious at all. And that sums up what the war accomplished. It made us an “is.”