... males such as themselves could dominate national decision-making. Jefferson's words of the new Constitution were based on strong merit, but may have been overly optimistic considering the state of morality at the time: "I believe this the strongest government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the ... law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern. Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, ... ...

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