{"id":8103,"date":"2025-09-07T08:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=8103"},"modified":"2025-09-07T08:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:27:38","slug":"our-obligation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/09\/07\/our-obligation\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Obligation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I spent most of my career teaching social studies.\u00a0\u00a0As I stood in front of a classroom, explaining Gettysburg or World War I (two of my favorite lesson plans), I didn&#8217;t expect my students would remember all the details.\u00a0\u00a0While I would (ask my wife) get incredibly detailed about Confederate movements around and up Little Round Top, or vividly create a picture of life in the trenches of Northern France, I was really trying to teach my students something else.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I wanted them to \u201cfeel\u201d the incredible courage of Americans, willing to risk everything for a cause they believed in.\u00a0\u00a0I tried to make them \u201clive\u201d in that moment with a nineteen year-old from Texas, or Maine, or Ohio, as they faced the existential threat of death.\u00a0\u00a0My hope was they would understand that being an American (even an American fighting against the Union) was a cause worth fighting for, and even dying for.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">If there was any \u201cindoctrination\u201d going on,  it was that even with all of its flaws, the concept of the American experiment was and is, worth it. It was so important, as the Founding Fathers so eloquently put it, that: \u201c<em>(W)ith a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor<\/em>\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/GO\/GO00\/20220929\/115171\/HHRG-117-GO00-20220929-SD010.pdf\">Declaration of Independence<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Benjamin Franklin put it succinctly:\u00a0\u00a0\u201c<em>We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0It was true outside Independence Hall in 1776, and it is still true today.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Perfect<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I based my goals for the class on this \u201changing together\u201d; and one other phrase, this by James Madison.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWe the People of the United States, in order to form\u00a0<strong>a more perfect Union<\/strong>\u2026\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/preamble\">Preamble, US Constitution<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s that odd phrasing, \u201cmore perfect\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019d spend just a little time dealing with the grammatical issue created by \u201cmore perfect\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Clearly if something is perfect, there is no more \u201cperfecting\u201d, nor making it \u201cperfect-er\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0But it wasn\u2019t a Madisonian grammar error, it was an intentional understanding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">America was not perfect.\u00a0\u00a0It was a Nation with enslavement and economic inequity, and huge regional diversity.\u00a0\u00a0But instead of saying the negative, a \u201cflawed\u201d America (is that \u201cwoke\u201d?), Madison instead recognized that the Constitutional Republic was a form of government so much better, that it simply need be allowed to \u201cgrow\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0The growth is the \u201cmore perfecting\u201d, and we could see it in the Constitution itself.\u00a0\u00a0The inclusion of an Amending process (Article V) allowed the Constitution to \u201cgrow\u201d, from the Bill of Rights on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The American experiment in democracy was literally based in change, in becoming \u201cmore perfect\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0{<em>This is exact opposite of the legal argument of the Supreme Court \u201cOriginalists\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Their opinion is that the Constitution was set in stone, like a tablet down from Mount Sinai.\u00a0\u00a0Their idea is that anything other than amending, leaves the Constitution static and unchanged.\u00a0\u00a0That doesn\u2019t fit with Madison\u2019s model at all}.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Learning Outcome<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My goal for my students was to see America as a place where regardless of our ethnic, regional, racial, religious, gender or political differences; we could all still \u201chang together\u201d.\u00a0And that, together, even in a Nation full of flaws, we could continue the process of making it, and our lives, \u201cmore perfect\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0That was a goal worth living for, and if need be, dying for; despite the imperfections that America has.\u00a0\u00a0And that was what teaching social studies in America was all about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Today,  all of those &#8220;vaunted ideals&#8221; are being erased.\u00a0\u00a0The current America is becoming, in my view, \u201cless perfect\u201d at an alarming rate.\u00a0\u00a0Patrick Henry in his famous \u201cLiberty or Death\u201d speech said:\u00a0\u00a0\u201c<em>&#8230;The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0Today, you might say the next news update  \u201cshall bring to our ears\u201d the sound of American democracy failing, on piece at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prudence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It would be easy to \u201cgo small\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cprudent\u201d move might be to hide.\u00a0\u00a0The shield of white, suburban America, of old age, of stable pension and mortgage; all seductively call out; \u201cLay low. Let the gale pass by\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0But what about those young Americans who drove  into a hail of mini\u00e9\u00a0balls at Gettysburg with nothing but the bayonets on their rifles?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What about the heroes who held the trenches at Second Battle of the Marne?\u00a0\u00a0What about my parents, who placed their lives on the line to stop Fascism in World War II?\u00a0\u00a0They stood up to the tempest, regardless of the risk.\u00a0\u00a0Those \u201cordinary\u201d heroes (how can a hero be ordinary?) might not have articulated the Founding Fathers\u2019 reasoning, but they were defending the American experiment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">If not us, who will stand up for Jefferson\u2019s and Franklin\u2019s and Madison\u2019s ideals?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And, what do I owe those thousands of students who watched the battle lines of Gettysburg move across the chalk-board, or imagined the stench of mud, feces and human rot  in the trenches of my class?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">American Answer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It must be more than being small; more than prudence in my actions.\u00a0\u00a0There are many ways to stand for \u201cmore perfect\u201d today, but hiding is not one of them.\u00a0\u00a0So I too must call out a government that is acting Un-American, from secret police round-ups to blowing up ships on the high seas.\u00a0\u00a0The Founding Fathers would have understood the need to leave their homes and act, as soldiers or legislators or statesmen, or even as authors.\u00a0\u00a0Thomas Paine,  the \u201cconscience of the American revolution\u201d, said it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201c<em>Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.&nbsp;Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">He also wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201c<em>THESE are the times that try men&#8217;s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It is no time to be a summer soldier or a sunshine patriot.\u00a0\u00a0Our souls are being tried, but the clear duty to our Nation remains.\u00a0\u00a0We must stand by it now:\u00a0\u00a0for our families and our ancestors, and for students past and future.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Because those future students will ask, in a freer America; \u201cwhat did you do?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">We must provide the answer to that question; one that makes America more perfect again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching I spent most of my career teaching social studies.\u00a0\u00a0As I stood in front of a classroom, explaining Gettysburg or World War I (two of my favorite lesson plans), I didn&#8217;t expect my students would remember all the details.\u00a0\u00a0While I would (ask my wife) get incredibly detailed about Confederate movements around and up Little Round &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2025\/09\/07\/our-obligation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Obligation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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