Restoring the Integrity of Our Democracy

**Remarks as presented to the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy, Boston College School of Law on January 24, 2017**

Not so many years ago, Robert F. Kennedy said:

“Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men [and women] chance error in their search for the truth.”

American democracy is a topic on which many incumbent politicians love to wax poetic.

We have all heard long sermons on the beauty of our democracy, the brilliance of our Constitution.
This is not one of those talks.

Our democracy is in trouble.

We have become bored with our politics.
So bored, in fact, that most of us would rather be entertained by it than read about it.
We’d sooner protest its shortcomings than take part in its healing.
I want to speak with you today about the immediate challenges facing our Nation;
The common good we share as a people.
The human institutions we have created — over time — to preserve, protect and defend our liberties.
The dignity of every individual person.

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