... 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 ... ...

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