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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.
Brand Blanshard

Born: August 27, 1892
Died: November 19, 1987 (aged 95)
Bio: Percy Brand Blanshard was an American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason. A powerful polemicist, by all accounts he comported himself with courtesy and grace in philosophical controversies and exemplified the "rational temper" he advocated.
Known for:
- The nature of thought (1939)
- On philosophical style. (1954)
- Reason & Analysis (1962)
- Reason and Goodness (1961)