Thane Cornell: A letter to Lady America

Dear Lady America, Clothed in the Constitution of the United States of America and under garmented with its amendments, you are being celebrated because you’ve consistently stood up in a period spanning over 500 years of various contentions and victories on your vast, rich land — the embodiment of your soul. Your Liberty Bell first sounded when one Christopher Columbus made a proposal and one Queen Isabella gave acceptance — both thus entering into the spirit of unity, foresight and coura