Letter: American greatness is something to strive for, not something to return to

A dozen years after its founding, “in order to form a more perfect Union,” our nation adopted its Constitution. The union was not perfect in 1776; adopting the Constitution in 1788 did not make it so; it is not perfect now, and it never will achieve perfection. America instead is an ideal always to be sought and striven for in the future, not the past.Martin Luther King had a dream, “deeply rooted in the American dream, … that one day this nation will rise up and live ou