Charles Schulz, creator of "Peanuts," on Democracy

My personal cartooning hero, Peanuts author Charles Schulz was sent a letter in 1970 from a ten year old student asking what makes a good citizen.

Schulz responded with a letter that resonates strongly today, 53 years later.

Good grief.

In 1970, students in a fifth-grade class at Hawthorne School in Beverly Hills were assigned to write a letter to someone they admired, asking them "What makes a good citizen?" — Read the rest