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The Writers & Speakers (2,807 words)

  They endeavored to make America to be that City on the Hill.   There was no call to patriotic sentiment,   but a certain going forth in sharp righteousness,   proclaiming themselves vociferously to THE standard of God,   intellectual, advocating firebrands      Critical thinkers..political scientists,   genuine sentinels of life, liberty and justice. In Alexander Hamiltonā€™s opening salvo to promote and present constitutional understanding in his essay, Federalist No.1, he asks poignantly,  ā€œit seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, wether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or wether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as th...