Our Promissory Note

In his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, Martin Luther King, Jr., pointed back to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. "When the architects of our Republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir." Packed within the first paragraphs of King's most famous speech are questions of importance for us as we study constitutional rights this semester.