"We the People".  No three stronger words were ever uttered in a document before or since.  The idea that, for the first time, a free people could decide their destiny was just as revolutionary then as it is now.  The Founding Fathers could never have envisioned the technological advances that would unfold in two short centuries; but they realized that a free people needed a framework to grow and prosper.

That was the basis of the Constitution.  The idea that in this nation we are the masters of our own house. 

Today, that dream is threatened.  Not from an outside power, but from within.  It is threatened by petty divisions caused by bickering and a ever more divided house.  In times of crisis, we traditionally come together as Americans.  We need to rise up and do that again.

Many say that our greatness has gone, and the sun is setting on the American nation.  I say that it has never shone brighter.  Together, not as Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians or Independents, but as friends, neighbors and Americans, we can preserve the freedoms promised.  This is not a Conservative Dream, or a Liberal Dream, but the American Dream.