Our sacred responsibility of living in a democracy is demanding a great deal of us these days.

I came of age in the 1960s when marching against the Vietnam War or on behalf of civil rights was something an overwhelming number of citizens did because they believed power emanated from the consent of the governed. And, because a single march could evolve into a political movement — could help end a war, could lead to the passage of laws protecting the rights of all Americans, regardless of the color of their skin — to be alive in that dawn felt like patriotism of the highest order.

That dawn must be upon us again.

Our country is testing us. Certainly, by a president who believes he exists beyond constitutional law — the law is what he says it is — but also by our system of government, whic

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