At 250 years old, America is still a young nation in comparison to many others around the world. But making it to a 250th birthday is remarkable given just how unique the American founding is.
One of the incredible features of the American Republic is that it has the oldest written constitution in the world. While the U.S. Constitution is a bit younger than the United States, it has provided the blueprint for the American government and a roadmap for recognizing and respecting the rights of American citizens for most of the last two and a half centuries.
As a part of Restoring the West’s special series, Senior Editor for Law & Liberty Trey Dimsdale was joined by Dr. Hadley Arkes, the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions Emeritus at Amherst College and the founder and co-director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding, to discuss the moral architecture of the Constitution and the unique features that have allowed it—and the nation that it has shaped—to endure for all these years.
