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By Franco COZZANI *
Article published before the US elections
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, …”, so famously begins one of the most progressive and democratic bodies of law the Western world has ever witnessed.
Constitutions have been modelled upon that one the world over, and the U.S. Constitution mirrors the very same idea standing behind the country’s foundation: a land of free men (and women, as it was later better specified) who freely chose to set up shop in a faraway land, freed from religious wars and oppression, voting with the keel of their ships on the otherwise rich European heritage of lore.
The United States was born out of an idea, the idea...
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