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RT Andrew T. Walker (@AndrewTWalker)The universal ideals of the American Founding were not abstract principles floating free of history; they were ideals shaped decisively by Christianity. For that reason, American ideals are both universal in scope and particular in origin—emerging from a people whose moral imagination was formed by a concrete socio-religious tradition. Those convictions were transmitted through a cultural carrier, namely Christianity. America can be propositional because its Founding aura ...