...Federalist Papers states, "It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide . . . whether societies of men are really capable or not...reflection and choice, or whether they are forever forced to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force." We should not overestimate...

...to have been reserved to the people of [the United States], by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...establishing good government from reflection and choice . Appendix A The Declaration of Independence (1776) In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. A DECLARATION By the...

...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...of establishing good government from reflection and choice."11 By the first decade of the twenty-first century that question had evidently been decided...

...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...their political constitutions on accident and force," he wrote in "Federalist No. 1," the opening salvo in that great reflection on democracy, The Federalist...

...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...for their political constitutions on accident and force."38 Notice, though, that Hamilton's use of words like good government, reflection, and choice...