America: We’ve Been Here Before - Part I

A Pictorial Essay

We have fought before to preserve our Declared rights - the fight continues - for our right to exist as a country. John Jay, a competent lawyer and negotiator, doubled the size of the proposed United States;

For our freedoms; 

Rousseau: The Social Contract (Le Contract Social) et Principes du Droit Politique (and Principles of Political Rights)

de Montesquieu - The Spirit of the Laws 

Alfred Thayer Mahan - father of U.S. geopolitics and Cordell Hull; "Commerce follows the flag."

Norman Rockwell

Update:

For our right to be inspired by uncommon thoughts and actions;

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - about the evolution of Man to the Noosphere.

Reverence for Life; 

Dr, Albert Schweitzer

"Forgiveness is not for wimps" - Father Theodore Hesburg of Notre Dame;

By art;

By facts, science, data and Faith;

Part II Uncommon Women;