David Burns: Is this the Fourth Founding?

In a recent eulogy, President Obama saluted Rep. John Lewis as a “founding father” of a “fuller, better” America. That was fair, because the United States is still an unfinished project.Alone among nations, America was conceived as an idea, based on political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. In school, we were taught that the expression of these principles in Revolutionary War Era documents created the founding. But like a ship, the American pro