Dunno, I wasn't there. To me it seems that the U.S. government is probably the furthest-removed from the people among western nations - and Americans are by far the least trusting of government.

I was thinking of the Ghettysburg Address when I wrote that statement: http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/get...

This wasn't written when the United States came into being, but I would like to think that Abraham Lincoln had the founding father's heart when he spoke it.