OPINION:
With her recent statement that “our Founders sacrificed everything — their lives, their liberty, their sacred honor — for a democracy,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is playing fast and loose with history. One would think that a former speaker of the House would be more careful.
Our Founders mutually pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, and they did not create a democracy.
Granted, they wrote only a one-page declaration, not a 2,000-page health care bill, and they have to be forgiven for mentioning the protection of divine Providence, but what they bequeathed to us merits at least accurate description.
ANNE ALLEN
Washington
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