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Remember all those 1776 patriots who have suddenly gone silent?

Though the higher education system in the United States is older than the country itself—Harvard first opened its doors to students more than a century before the 1776 American Revolution—women were still not able to earn bachelor’s degrees for the better part of the century that followed the founding.

Thus, by 1776 the constitutional monarchy of King George III, the monarchy Americans deemed so tyrannical that they rebelled against it, was not democratic because its royal head was selected by heredity rather than election, but it was already fully committed to the rule of law—the fundamental principle that the law is above even the king.

In these respects, today’s America resembles the America of 1776, when divisions threatened the future of the democratic experiment.

Flanked by legislators and organizers with United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776, including dozens of rank-and-file members marching up and down the sidewalk, Veney and other workers argued that parent company Amazon — which reported a net income of $15.3 billion in its last reported quarter, up more than 50% from the year before — can afford more than just the occasional treats.