The Constitution of the United States of America –?– Born in Venice

The American Constitution was not born from a solitary dream of freedom. It was born from a thousand years of a Republic that knew how to endure. It was born from the waters of a Lagoon where men and women understood that true power is not the power to command, but to govern by sharing the ‘burden’ of freedom. And it was born, finally, from an Italian who one day sat beside George Washington and whispered to him the secret that Venice had guarded for a thousand years: how to make liberty endure through time. Although forged through compromise, it remains faithful to a rare and powerful principle —the common good.