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Jake Auchincloss: “250 years ago, the founders launched this American…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Jeffrey Goldberg, Meghna Chakrabarti, and Rep. Jake Auchincloss in Boston on America at 250

Published | Video Starts at 37:41

How do you define patriotism? As we come up on the 250th anniversary of the founding of this country 250 years ago, the founders launched this American experiment, see if a free people could govern themselves as equals under the law. And it's always been contested, as you said in your conversation before, the questions are not as settled as we thought. (37:41–37:51)

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Asserts that the American experiment was launched 250 years ago to see if a free people could govern themselves as equals under the law.

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