Sublime

From 1815 on, instead of spreading democracy, we

As an adult, Wilson shared none of Roosevelt’s lust for violent conquest. For his secretary of state he chose William Jennings…

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it’s important to understand a bill passed by Congress in 1787: the Northwest Ordinance.

Jefferson

This new vastness of federal power over society required not only a strong president. Even more, it required a vast administrative structure. President Obama’s health-care act was around 897 documents with over twenty thousand pages of regulations to explain it. Compare this with the original Social Security law, which was twenty-nine pages long.

Right before the Princeton battle, Washington informed Philadelphia financier Robert Morris that “we have the greatest occasion at present for hard money to pay a certain set of people who are of particular use to us . . . Silver would be most convenient.” 19 Washington considered Morris, a huge man with a ruddy complexion and a genial personality,

of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended.

Before the day was through, he had given a six-hour speech (no break for lunch) that was brilliant, courageous, and, in retrospect, completely daft.