Contemporary Links
Here are a couple links to organizations that make use of Madison's "American experiment" phrase from _The Federalist Papers_:
Center of the American Experiment
Renewing the American Experiment
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on these sites. What curency do these organizations find in the notion of an American experiment? To what ends do they seek to appropriate the phrase?
Graphic: Jasper Johns, _Flag_ (1962-68)
posted by britt rusert at 8:35 PM
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It seems that both of these sites place an empahsis on the individual. For example, the People-Centered Development (PCD) site speaks about how institutions of power are taking over while the individual rests to suffer. Similarly, the center for American Exp seeks "limited government," placing the power to inviduals.
They seem to be resonating with the original idea of the American Experiment in that America was a nation founded among individuals seeking to escape the aristocratic (elite group vs. individual) methods of the old world.
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