out the nation in which they now live. (111-112) Debs serves to remind the country of it's original foundations, admonishing the committee that was trying him for crimes against the nation in a clear violation of his right to free speech crying that the only way to find would be to admonish not him for acting as many brave American's have in the past by speaking out against injustice but to call into question the law that is being used against him in the first place. (94-98) In Bourne's Trans-national America there is also a clear sense that history is being ignored, as do-gooders try to decide for newer immigrants what American is, rather than allowing them allegiance to their countries of origin and the ability to transform America, an opportunity that the first immigrants had. (98-103) Even the most outspoken of the group of speakers and writers, demanding that American Blacks join a movement t
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