We still lack, and in our own country woefully lack, the "spirit within the wheels" that can move with power toward an actual government by the people, for the people, and truly of the people.

Yet by fire and sword and through blood and suffering the handwriting of equality, justice, and fraternity has been set in our Constitutions and Bills of Right.

What remains to be done is the socializing of the political mechanisms.

That means simply that we shall learn to live our democracy and be no longer content to merely write it in law.

The difficulty now is not so much to get a good statement of democratic right as to make it work effectively in common action.