Best African American Essays 2010 #9780553385373

A More Perfect UnionBarack Obama“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”Two hundred and twenty-one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a P…