{"product_id":"2940013874428","title":"THE FATHERS OF THE CONSTITUTION","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I. THE TREATY OF PEACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     II. TRADE AND INDUSTRY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     III. THE CONFEDERATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     IV. THE NORTHWEST ORDINANCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     V. DARKNESS BEFORE DAWN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VI. THE FEDERAL CONVENTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VII. FINISHING THE WORK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VIII. THE UNION ESTABLISHED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     APPENDIX\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     NOTES ON THE PORTRAITS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION\u003cbr\u003e     FATHERS OF THE CONSTITUTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I. THE TREATY OF PEACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The United States of America\"! It was in the Declaration of\u003cbr\u003eIndependence that this name was first and formally proclaimed to the\u003cbr\u003eworld, and to maintain its verity the war of the Revolution was fought.\u003cbr\u003eAmericans like to think that they were then assuming \"among the Powers\u003cbr\u003eof the Earth the equal and independent Station to which the Laws\u003cbr\u003eof Nature and of Nature's God entitle them\"; and, in view of their\u003cbr\u003esubsequent marvelous development, they are inclined to add that it must\u003cbr\u003ehave been before an expectant world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these days of prosperity and national greatness it is hard to realize\u003cbr\u003ethat the achievement of independence did not place the United States on\u003cbr\u003ea footing of equality with other countries and that, in fact, the new\u003cbr\u003estate was more or less an unwelcome member of the world family. It is\u003cbr\u003enevertheless true that the latest comer into the family of nations\u003cbr\u003edid not for a long time command the respect of the world. This lack\u003cbr\u003eof respect was partly due to the character of the American population.\u003cbr\u003eAlong with the many estimable and excellent people who had come to\u003cbr\u003eBritish North America inspired by the best of motives, there had come\u003cbr\u003eothers who were not regarded favorably by the governing classes of\u003cbr\u003eEurope. Discontent is frequently a healthful sign and a forerunner of\u003cbr\u003eprogress, but it makes one an uncomfortable neighbor in a satisfied and\u003cbr\u003econservative community; and discontent was the underlying factor in\u003cbr\u003ethe migration from the Old World to the New. In any composite immigrant\u003cbr\u003epopulation such as that of the United States there was bound to be a\u003cbr\u003elarge element of undesirables. Among those who came \"for conscience's\u003cbr\u003esake\" were the best type of religious protestants, but there were also\u003cbr\u003ereligious cranks from many countries, of almost every conceivable sect\u003cbr\u003eand of no sect at all. Many of the newcomers were poor. It was common,\u003cbr\u003etoo, to regard colonies as inferior places of residence to which\u003cbr\u003eobjectionable persons might be encouraged to go and where the average\u003cbr\u003eof the population was lowered by the influx of convicts and thousands of\u003cbr\u003eslaves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The great number of emigrants from Europe\"--wrote Thieriot, Saxon\u003cbr\u003eCommissioner of Commerce to America, from Philadelphia in 1784--\"has\u003cbr\u003efilled this place with worthless persons to such a degree that scarcely\u003cbr\u003ea day passes without theft, robbery, or even assassination.\"* It would\u003cbr\u003eperhaps be too much to say that the people of the United States were\u003cbr\u003elooked upon by the rest of the world as only half civilized, but\u003cbr\u003ecertainly they were regarded as of lower social standing and of inferior\u003cbr\u003equality, and many of them were known to be rough, uncultured, and\u003cbr\u003eignorant. Great Britain and Germany maintained American missionary\u003cbr\u003esocieties, not, as might perhaps be expected, for the benefit of the\u003cbr\u003eIndian or negro, but for the poor, benighted colonists themselves; and\u003cbr\u003eGreat Britain refused to commission a minister to her former colonies\u003cbr\u003efor nearly ten years after their independence had been recognized.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069218734320,"sku":"2940013874428","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013874428_p0.jpg?v=1763596494","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013874428","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}