On the recordMarch 20, 1996
Mr. Speaker, today is a day that we are celebrating with this special order this resolution where we have named March 25, 1996, as Greek Independence Day, a national day of celebration of Greek and American democracy. I guess what is really, I think, particularly appropriate and important to talk about is that we took over 200 years ago the example that Greece had set over 2,000 years ago as an example of how, under the rule of law, a disparate people living in far-flung city states at that time could be brought together in a confederation. And James Madison and Alexander Hamilton themselves also wrote in the Federalist Papers: Among the confederacies of antiquity, the most considerable was that of the Grecian Republics.…
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