E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790
- ISBN-10
- 0913966592
- ISBN-13
- 9780913966594
- Series
- E Pluribus Unum
- Category
- History
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Publisher
- Indianapolis : Liberty Press
- Author
- Forrest McDonald
Description
Having won independence from England, America faced a new question: Would this be politically one nation, or would it not? E Pluribus Unum is a spirited look at how that question came to be answered. That the American people introduced a governmental system adequate to check the very forces unleashed by the Revolutionthis, writes Professor McDonald, "was the miracle of the age. . . . The French, the Russians, the Italians, the Germans, all the planet's peoples in their turn, would become so unrestrained as to lose contact with sanity. The Americans might have suffered a similar history had they followed the lead of those who, in 1787 and 1788, spoke in the name . . . of popular 'rights.' But there were giants on the earth in those days, and they spoke in the name of the nation. . . ."
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