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Remarks delivered to NatCon 4 in Washington, DC. You are living in an experiment. In March of this year, the foreign-born or immigrant population in the U.S.—both legal and illegal—hit record highs.

From the time of the founding era to the present day, one of the more common things said about American democracy is that it is an “experiment.” Most people can readily intuit what the term is meant ...