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Excerpt from The Woman Citizen's Library; A Systematic Course of Reading in Preparation for the Larger Citizenship, Vol. 6 of 12: Practical Politics
A T the apex of the American system is the federal constitution and the government of the United States. The American federal constitution is one of the great written documents of history, and its adop tion marked the most advanced step that had been taken in the progress of representative government. Its in?uence upon the governments of the world has been profound, unsurpassed by any similar document, unless it be, perhaps, that great charter of English liberty, the Magna Charta of King John. But there was 10mg a prevalent misconception concerning both its formation and the creation of the union. It was thought that the fathers there and then created a great nation and out of their wisdom formulated a new and republican form of government. From what has al ready been said in the previous volumes regarding the precedents and origins of the various branches of.
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