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As nations proceed to invent themselves, refine themselves, and render themselves fit for the allegiance of
their people, the Constitution of the United States remains the gold standard. For those fortunate to live under a rule
of law respectful of the dignity of the person, there is such a feeling of familiarity and naturalness that little
attention is paid to the monumental nature of the “invention”—and, therefore, the monumental effort
required to preserve it.
As the world’s oldest democracy, the United States stands as the test case for
those who regard self-government as inherently unstable, inherently self-destructive. Fears were expressed from the
first, but so too was unrelenting resolve. Writing to his beloved Abigail on July 3, 1776, John Adams offered this sober
reflection:

“You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil,
and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet,
through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all
the means, and that posterity will triumph in that day’s transaction, even although we should rue it, which I
trust in God we shall not.”

How to Determine Ideals?

Just which “ideals” were
affirmed by the Founders? What lessons of history were closely studied by them? What part did religion take in the
entire undertaking and, in light of this, what is the nature of that famous “wall of separation” Jefferson
wrote of in his correspondence? How was the institution of slavery understood in relation to the high ideals and aims of
the Founders?

This set of a dozen lectures is an invitation to enter this part of the Long Debate; the debate
regarding human nature and the conditions right for its flourishing. The lectures are also a tribute to the Founders
whose depth of thought, raw courage, persistence, and realism succeeded in moving political philosophy from the
schoolhouse to the wider world.

Between the lines of all the lectures there is also a portrait formed of a
people striving to preserve and promote lives at once self-determining and consistent with high principles deeply held.
Their character was recognized at a great distance.

“This general spirit existing in the American
nation is not new among them; it is, and ever has been their established principle, their confirmed persuasion; it is
their nature and their doctrine. You might destroy their towns, and cut them off from the superfluities but they prefer
poverty with liberty, to golden chains and sordid affluence. ’Tis liberty to liberty engaged, that they will
defend themselves, their families and their country. In this great cause they are immovably allied. It is the alliance
of God and nature—immutable, eternal, fixed as the firmament of heaven!”

—William Pitt,
in the House of Lords, December 20, 1775

The Right People for a Republic

Montesquieu’s
widely read Spirit of the Laws described the civic personality that is right for a given form of government. Tyrannies
required citizens motivated and guided by fear. The worthy monarchy depends on subjects devoted to honor. A
self-governing republic calls for those committed to virtue. But what are the sources of virtue, and to what extent were
they effective in shaping the character of Colonial America?

Early America was settled by devout Puritan
Christians whose successors were attached to the same Christian teachings, now adapted to a New World, rapidly expanding
in population and in commerce. It was, however, less the land of “rugged individualism” than of a principled
communitarianism focused on the common good. It was precisely this combination of piety and sober
deliberation—this immunity to fashionable and abstract philosophies—that preserved it from the excesses
that consumed revolutionary France. The humanistic Calvinism that guided so many colonial lives was further enlarged by
trust in the common sense and rationality shared by all; a common sense and rationality that would stand as the ultimate
arbiter over the claims of authority.

The colonists, we discover, were avid readers. In a 1775 speech before
Parliament, Edmund Burke pointed out that London booksellers had informed him that they sold more books in the colonies
than in all of Great Britain combined. Montesquieu, John Locke’s Treatises on Government, and John Milton on
press freedoms—these and scores of works in moral philosophy, history, law, and theology were staples even in the
smallest private libraries.

In these carefully crafted dozen lectures, Professor Robinson traces the dominant
features of the early American ethos that culminated in declared independence and a constitutional form of government
unheralded in political history. The United States of America was, after all, the first nation ever to be created on a
date certain by persons whose names we know and on grounds developed through debate and deliberation. As the influential
Founder, James Wilson, said during the ratification process,

“The United States exhibit to the world
the first instance, as far as we can learn, of a nation, unattacked by external force, unconvulsed by domestick
insurrections, assembling voluntarily, deliberating fully, and deciding calmly, concerning thatsystem of government,
under which they would wish that they and their posterity should live.”

The Founding Documents

Here, then, is an opportunity to trace the way the founding documents of the United States evolved. You examine the
early Articles of Confederation as these anticipate the fuller development of fundamental principles during the
Constitutional Convention. Notions embodied in earlier colonial laws evolve and are made enduring in the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution. George Mason’s Virginia Declaration of Rights, for example, asserts that
“All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights,” including “pursuing
happiness.”

The two lectures on the Constitutional Convention are a highlight of the course. They shed
light on the roles specific Founders took in creating the most reasonable plan for ordered liberty ever reduced to
writing. The effort was not to create the Garden of Eden, but a nation, populated by persons of diverse interests and
needs, abilities and tendencies. The Founders were realists, heeding delegate Pierce Butler’s urgings to
“follow the example of Solon, who gave the Athenians not the best government he could devise, but the best they
would receive.”

They succeeded pre-eminently. 

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