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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Bernard Lewis

Born: May 31, 1916
Died: May 19, 2018 (aged 101)
Bio: Bernard Lewis was a British American historian specializing in oriental studies. He is also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis is the Cleveland E.
Known for:
- What Went Wrong? (2002)
- The Crisis of Islam (2003)
- Islam and the West
- The Arabs in History
- The Emergence of Modern Turkey