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Learning the Constitution – Don Brown ON THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING THE CONSTITUTION: A Modest Proposal THE INK QUILL Literary & Art Magazine Bladen Community College Spring, 2017 By Don Brown King Solomon, often called the wisest man in history, once said that “without a vision the people perish.” Some 2,700 years later, the great American Patriot Thomas Jefferson said that “the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” Yet, as I write this essay, as America enters the 241st year of her existence, a dangerous level of pandemic ignorance exists about who we are as a people and what binds us together as the most uniquely-constructed nation in history – namely, the United States Constitution. Perhaps there’s some basic understanding in culturally idiomatic phrases such as “the land of the free,” or “the flag still stands for freedom,” or whatnot. But beyond a vague notion that the Constitution is somehow …