The sharp contradistinction between what is natural, innate and genetic and what comes from the environment, upbringing and education has fuelled
a great number of controversies and lamentable developments around the globe.
Last September's sensational leak
of the
Great Public Schools Now Initiative, a half - billion - dollar plan to double the
number of charter schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), sparked a firestorm
of controversy.
It is useful because it is honest; because it leaves not even the most obscure and friendless citizen without means
of obtaining justice from a neighbouring State; because it obviates occasions
of quarrels between States on account
of the claims
of their respective citizens; because it recognizes and strongly rests on this
great moral truth that justice is the same whether due from one man or a million, or from a million to one man; because it teaches and greatly appreciates the value
of our free republican national government, which places all our citizens on an equal footing, and enables each and every
of them to obtain justice without any danger
of being overborne by the weight and
number of their opponents; and because it brings into action and enforces this
great and glorious principle — that the people are the sovereign
of this country, and consequently that fellow citizens and joint sovereigns can not be degraded by appearing with each other in their own courts to have their
controversies determined.