Civicwiki:RandDintro

The United States began as a nation of people determined that liberty is fundamental to life. We created something new in government - a democratic republic with novel protections for "life, liberty, and property." Because we understood that liberty is fragile, we bet the future of our country on the strength of those protections. When asked what the Constitutional Convention had given the country, Benjamin Franklin famously answered - "A Republic, if you can keep it." We have kept it. And America became the most successful of countries if personal liberty, wellbeing, and prosperity are the measures.

• CW is about how that government took shape, what made it strong, and how it has evolved. (categories: Inalienable Rights and Federalism and Democracy)