The belief in political fixity, of the sanctity of some form of state consecrated by the efforts of our fathers and hallowed by tradition, is one of the stumbling-blocks in the way of orderly and directed change; it is an invitation to revolt and revolution.
Dewey critiques the belief in the unchangeable nature of government structures as a barrier to progress.
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