At year's end: A duty to protect our constitutional democracy

In this season of peace, remembrance and celebration, we are beckoned by the ghosts of 1776 and 1787 to recall the historic work of this nation’s founders in establishing a republic grounded in the aspirational

principles of liberty, equality and self-governance, and our duty as citizens to defend to defend it.

The serious challenges to American Democracy, at home and abroad, have generated search...