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Conclusion
The Founders knew they were sailing into uncharted
waters, and they knew their ship of state was entirely
different from anything else on the face of the earth. True,
they had examined every kind of political operation known to
man, and they had abstracted from history every lesson and
precaution they could learn, but their own product was
unique, bold, and filled with the promise of a better day.
Probably no one summed it up better than James Madison
when he wrote:
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"Is it not the glory of the people of America that,
whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of
former times and other nations, they have not suffered a
blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names,
to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the
knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of
their own experience?
"Is it not the glory of the people of America that,
whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of
former times and other nations, they have not suffered a
blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names,
to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the
knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of
their own experience?
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"To this manly spirit posterity will be indebted for
the possession, and the world for the example, of the
numerous innovations displayed on the American
theater in favor of private rights and public happiness.
"Had no important step been taken by the leaders
of the Revolution for which a precedent could not be
discovered, no government established of which an exact
model did not present itself, the people of the United
States might at this moment have been numbered
among the melancholy victims of misguided councils,
must at best have been laboring under the weight of
some of those forms which have crushed the liberties of
the rest of mankind."
Then he concluded:
"To this manly spirit posterity will be indebted for
the possession, and the world for the example, of the
numerous innovations displayed on the American
theater in favor of private rights and public happiness.
"Had no important step been taken by the leaders
of the Revolution for which a precedent could not be
discovered, no government established of which an exact
model did not present itself, the people of the United
States might at this moment have been numbered
among the melancholy victims of misguided councils,
must at best have been laboring under the weight of
some of those forms which have crushed the liberties of
the rest of mankind."
Then he concluded:
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"Happily for America, happily we trust FOR THE
WHOLE HUMAN RACE, they pursued a new and more
noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has
no parallel in the annals of human society. They reared
the fabrics of governments which have no model on the
face of the globe. They formed the design of a great
Confederacy, which it is incumbent on their successors
to improve and perpetuate." (The Federalist Papers, No.
14, pp. 104-105; emphasis added.)
"Happily for America, happily we trust FOR THE
WHOLE HUMAN RACE, they pursued a new and more
noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has
no parallel in the annals of human society. They reared
the fabrics of governments which have no model on the
face of the globe. They formed the design of a great
Confederacy, which it is incumbent on their successors
to improve and perpetuate." (The Federalist Papers, No.
14, pp. 104-105; emphasis added.)
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