Jon Meacham: 'The Constitution was written for moments like this'

Allow me to say in conclusion notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country. End quote. Those words were spoken by Frederick Douglass in the speech we now called, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.It was given 11 years before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. There are words for all of us to live by today. Our country has been led into a war of choice where civilians and soldiers are dying.We are watching our neighbors s ...