Monday 4 May 2009

History - Introduction to The Making of America - p. 1-6

- The Three Things All Mankind Is Seeking

Fist of all, mankind longs for freedom, both personally and nationally. Second, mankind longs for prosperity, again both personally and nationally. Third, Mankind longs for peace. To achieve these, the Constitution of the United States was written.

- The Founders' Freedom Formula

The Founding Fathers wanted to make a country where there was only peace and where the people could live in happiness and not have to constantly be at war with other countries. o the founders sat down and invented one. Basically, the wanted to create a place of peace and with civilized people who didn't want to constantly fight for power.

-The Founders' View of Human Nature

Clinton Rossiter wrote, there is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality - and none of these great good without stability and order".

  -The Miracle of America

After several thousands years, the American charter of liberty turned out to be the first successful attempt to build a whole civilization on the principle of freedom. Americans, became the first free people ever. 

-The Culture Soil in Which America Freedom Grew

John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court said that the American people should all speak the same language, professing the same religion, very similar in their manners and customs, and should fight side by side throughout all long bloody wars.

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