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The language of our nation’s founding documents is inspirational. It portrays how the government is to derive from we the people in order to serve all the people. This past election’s advertising, ...

For some of us, what is even more remarkable than the politics of the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic is the number of notable artists at work in this small, mercantile country at the time, and the ...