The History of North America, Vol. 7: The Formation and Development of the Constitution (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Though we are forced to deny the statement of eminent historians that the Constitution is an original creation for whose conception those who formed it owe no thanks to aught beyond their own intellects and the conditions of material and political circumstances, and that in its pro visions we find unique conceptions of the political rights of man or of the forms for foreseeing these rights, we are forced to commend the wisdom with which materials at hand were used and theories and forms borrowed from France and England were availed of; and we ascribe to the great body of the Constitution a larger merit than we are willing to concede to any other instrument of government.

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