Americas at 250: We Celebrated the Republic and Forgot the Character Required to Keep It
America celebrated 250 years of independence with fireworks, flags, and patriotic speeches. But did we forget the moral character required to sustain our republic? The Founders understood human nature well enough to build a government that could restrain corruption, limit power, and even correct its own injustices. Jesus understood something deeper: No political system can redeem the human heart. We’ve inherited the machinery of liberty, but freedom without responsibility is a recipe for self-destruction. The Constitution can protect a free people. It cannot make an irresponsible people free.