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America is experiencing declining trust in democratic institutions and an erosion of the democratic norms essential to maintaining them. The U.S.
It is certainly true that nothing has more effectively kept thepeace in Europe than NATO; and even if NATO is now destined fordestruction, it is probably a healthier state of affairs whenalliances and treaties can both live and die in response to theshifting interests of the nations than when a treaty isimmortalized and inoculated against change, like the Charter andConventions of the U.N.
The impact of modern conservatism has been profound: for example, renewed public skepticism about Big Government; lower rates of violent crime and child poverty thanks to conservative initiativeslike welfare reform; and, in the wake of 9/11, a prudentialinternationalism. Through the power of its ideas and the unceasingdissemination and application of those ideas, the conservativemovement has become a major, and often the dominant, player in thepolitical and economic realms of America.
America's birthday is also that of Calvin Coolidge, the only President to be born on the Fourth of July. This is altogether fitting, as the man remembered as "Silent Cal" is one of the mosteloquent voices for the great and enduring principles expressed inour Declaration of Independence.