(The Center Square) – U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett is calling for civility in an increasingly polarized nation.

“Democracy requires compromise,” Coney said Tuesday evening at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif. “We can’t govern ourselves if we’re not willing to compromise and meet in the middle.”

Founding father Benjamin Franklin wasn’t fully satisfied with the U.S. Constitution, but considered it a miracle that the document’s framers found as much agreement as they did, Coney told the large audience and media packing an auditorium in the museum near Los Angeles. She was promoting her new book, “Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution.”

Coney talked about the Constitution and more as a modest-size gro

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