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“It is unlikely those who signed the [US.] Constitution were 100 percent oblivious to how remarkable it was that they managed to set aside regional ambitions and affirm the value of forming a sustainable union of alliances... Faith and trust in each other was a lot harder to come by than faith and trust in individual religions or ideology. Yet they managed to balance any inclinations towards either by incorporating into the Constitution ideas concerning individual rights, the separation of governmental powers, and popular sovereignty, at the time considered fresh by some and dangerous by others…”

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Book:Democratic Dilemmas and Divine Inspiration: On leadership and the fate of freedom in America

Source: Democratic Dilemmas and Divine Inspiration: On leadership and the fate of freedom in America

“Historical tempers have cooled only slightly after the impeachment of Bill Clinton for lying under oath about a sexual relationship. Many Americans still believe his actions were a threat to the very rule of law; others insist that the “offense” was more low farce than high crime, and that the zeal of Clinton's foes was partisan hypocrisy rather than constitutional passion.”

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Author:Garrett Epps

“If they wanted to understand our constitutional history, they should read ‘The Federalist,’ but if they really want to understand American politics, they should read the antifederalists.”

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Book:The Congressional Experience: An Institution Transformed

Source: The Congressional Experience: An Institution Transformed

“The human mind is too apt to rush from one extreme to another. -- Richard Henry Lee”

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Book:First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence

Source: First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence

“How could those who wrote the Constitution possibly understand its meaning better than those who had the experience of observing and participating in its operation? It is one thing to rail against the evils of politically unaccountable judges enlarging constitutional rights beyond the ideas and purposes of their adopters; another to explain why morally sustainable claims of equality be held captive to the extraordinary obstacles of Article V or subject to the partial and incomplete understandings of 1789 or 1868.”

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Book:Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

Source: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

“Yet in the 1950s and '60s, a wide range of historians quickly and uncritically...[sought to] rule out of serious discussion of the American founding any suggestion that important, even defining, conflicts prevailed between rich, well-connected founders--those men of a variety of opinions of how government should work, who signed the Declaration of Independence and framed the U.S. Constitution--and the huge majority of unrich, ordinary Americans who--though we know so little about it--spent the founding era protesting, rioting, petitioning, occupying, and making demands on government in hopes of achieving access to economic development and restraining the power of wealth. That economic conflict wasn't between revolutionary Americans and British authorities. It was between Americans and other Americans. I've come to see it--not its resolution but the conflict itself--as defining our emergence as a people.”

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Author:William Hogeland