Commentary Imagine a nation conceived in a struggle for liberation from distant imperial management, born out of a declaration of independence that sought “liberty and justice for all,” raised in the tradition of natural rights and constitutional self-government, that matured into a beacon of hope and freedom for oppressed people around the world. Up until somewhere in the mid-20th century, that nation was the United States of America. But, over the course of the last 60 years, the destiny of the United States has turned in a very different direction. Two Constitutions Early last year, Claremont Institute scholar Christopher Caldwell published a landmark history of post-World War II America entitled “The Age of Entitlement.” Caldwell maintained that civil rights reforms in the 1960s, although just and necessary, produced a series of unintended consequences. He argued that affirmative action measures, willingly accepted to make room for the entry of African Americas …