Commentary
America is a nation of joiners. When the French aristocrat and political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville visited America in the early 1830s, he was astonished at all the ways Americans associated.
“Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620,” 1899, by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris. Public Domain
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Luke C. Sheahan
Author
Luke C. Sheahan is assistant professor of political science at Duquesne University and a non-resident scholar in the program for research on religion and urban civil society at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of “Why Associations Matter: The Case for First Amendment Pluralism” (2020).