Reflections on equity, civic responsibility, and the evolving role of the Indianapolis Foundation

By AHMED YOUNG

My oldest daughter, Zara, an eighth grader, is participating in a competition called We the People. As the name suggests, the exercise invites students to wrestle with the questions ofconstitutional democracy — the ideas that shaped the earliest debates of our nation and still influence our civic life today.

Recently, our home has turned into a place of reflection and deep discussions. Zara and I

have had multiple conversations about the philosopher John Locke, federalism, and natural

rights. We talked about how the same foundational questions hotly debated at our nation’s founding remain deeply relevant today — and, in many ways, even more essential to sustaining our const

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