Reason

FROM THE ARCHIVES

15 YEARS AGO

July 2004

“We live under a constitution shaped by Morris’ smart pen. But in more ways than this, we live in Gouverneur Morris’ America. The worldly patron Founder of cities, trade, materialism, wit, pleasure, and style, Morris stood athwart history and waved it in. He saw the pluralistic, commercial form our freedom would take, and he saw that

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