美国浮世：自由人民政府的入门指南

A primer on a free people’s government By William T. Vollmann an explanation What dimensions has our America? I propose to offer you this antique measuring stick, with a few of my own prejudices rudely gashed in. Just because the Founders said it hardly makes it so. Moreover, just because I have read some of them here and there hardly proves that I un- derstand them. Fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Indepen- dence, the Supreme Court’s longest- serving chief justice expressed sour expectations of my abilities: “Those who follow us,” wrote John Marshall, “will know very little of the real transactions of our day, and will have very untrue impressions respecting men and things. …