Each year about this time, I marvel at what the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, while traveling our young nation in the 1830's, called our "great experiment." Come Sunday, we will have been in the "lab" for 234 years.
Every good lawyer I have known is a "wordsmith"-someone who can craft and wield the power of words, no less than a blacksmith can use a hammer, providing just the right amount of hard blows or gentle taps to precisely shape whatever the situation needs.
That may be why each Fourth of July, when NPR broadcasts it reading of the Declaration of Independence, I am blessed anew (and blown away) by the sheer beauty and power in Mr. Jefferson's words. His painstaking outline of "the patient sufferance of these Colonies" evincing "the necessity which constrains them to alter their Systems of Government" and the ultimate proclamation "...that these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States..."
Like the best of legal arguments, it is a compelling moral one as well.
Sometime over this special weekend of hot dogs and fireworks, I invite you to take nine minutes just to listen to the words that -- quite literally -- changed the world.
Best wishes for a safe and meaningful celebration.
Mike Daisley
WELLS DAISLEY RABON, P.A. 1616 Cleveland Avenue Charlotte, North Carolina 28203 [email protected]
phone: (704) 375-1800 fax: (704) 347-0684
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