⬥ The U.S. has long been embroiled in conflict about how well the country has actually lived up to its promises. In some obvious ways—like the fact that the country’s full set of human rights initially applied only to white men—it certainly has not. We’ll get into all that later in the book. The first step, though, is to brush up on what the country’s promises even are. That’s what we’re doing in this chapter. America’s founders formalized this with the U.S. Constitution: a set of rules that, rather than serving any particular goal or outcome, would be sacred in themselves.
define sacred
