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> .. a matter of definition, so the #ScienceOfGovernment teaches, it would be an error of logic to bring up the factual record. What may have happened in history is merely “the abuse of reality,”... “reality itself” is the unachieved “national purpose” revealed by “the evidence of history as our minds reflect it,” .. that the “transcendent purpose” of the United States is “the establishment of equality in freedom in America,” and indeed throughout the world...( #HansMorgenthau ).
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