To the Editor

The American experiment relies on an ethical standard

To the Editor:

Near the end of his second term as President, George Washington was aware that the foundation of our nation was still being laid and that the government of the new country was an experiment in popular government that most established powers of that time gave little chance of success. Detractors emphasize that our Constitution was created out of a series of compromises negotiated by white male property owners, many of whom owned slaves, and that the document essentially ignored any consideration for indigenous peoples who had...