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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: American Articles Collapsing Confederation Congress Convinced Created Each Earlier Extensive Governments Had Independence Legislature Many Perpetual Powers Six State State Governments Thirteen Union Were Winning Years

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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

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Topics: American American Revolution Carried Created Government Live Name Out People Revolution Still Supposedly Who

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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Any Build Carpenter Comparable Difficult Film House Just Make Making More Much New New One Old Old House Play Restore Scratch Successful Tell Than Will You

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The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Achievements Almost American Become Been Early Early Years Election Figured Government Had Hamilton His Jefferson Least Memory Much New Placed Positive Presidency Public Rival Rivalry Seemingly Thomas Thomas Jefferson Which World Years

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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.

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Topics: Best Blot Centuries Come Embarrassing England Enlightenment Far Forgotten Had History How How Far Human Human Race New New England Part Past Point Race Reminder Simply The History Of Trials Two Were Where

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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: American Appealed Both Celebrated Colonists Common Common Sense Creation Critical Despised Eloquence Events French He His Independence Long Pamphlet Present Republic Sense States Thomas Through Time Toward Traveled United United States

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The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

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Topics: American England Historical Like Literary Must New New England Obsession Outsiders Preoccupation Puritans Scholars Seem

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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Adulation Career Earned Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Hail His Long Long Career Merely Now Ordinary Ordinary People Other People Throughout Washington Whom

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Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Along American Because Century Commons Consider Debates Developments Documents Eighteenth Embodied English Government House House Of Commons Ideas Juxtaposition Late Later Many Period States United United States Were Why

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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Age Amendment Ark Ascribe Beyond Constitutions Covenant Deem Did Human Like Look Men More Reverence Sacred Sanctimonious Some Some Men Suppose Than Them Too Touched Wisdom

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: January 17th, 1916

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