"A Time To Serve"

Sep 1 2007 - 7:46am

Readers of this Blog may be interested in an article in this week's TIME Magazine titled "A Time to Serve" about public service in America.

A republic, if you can keep it. The founders were not at all optimistic
about the future of the Republic. There had been only a handful of
other republics in all of human history, and most were small and far
away. The founders' pessimism, though, came not from history but from
their knowledge of human nature. A republic, to survive, needed not
only the consent of the governed but also their active participation.
It was not a machine that would go of itself; free societies do not
stay free without the involvement of their citizens.

Click here for the full story.