...Supreme Court, sounds a distinctly uncosmopolitan note, describing Americans as "one united people - a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion."63 Yet, even with such qualifications, the important link Madison and other founders made...

...fact that "Providence [had] been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...government, very similar in their manners and customs. . . ."28 One of the processes by which the integration of political units often proceeds is by the...

...people, when he claimed that providence had given this one connected country to one united people-a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...government, very similar in their manners and customs — (ibid.: 50-51) Anyone familiar with American history would agree that nothing could have been further...

...Protestant, and an English speaker.1" In The Federalist no. 2, John Jay defined the American people as "a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs."128 The French-speaking population of Louisiana, needless to say, did not exactly fit that...

...artifacts, and much has changed since John Jay said (in The Federalist, no. 2) that Americans were "a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...the same language, professing the same religion." Now we are more "diverse." But even then we were more diverse than Jay's words suggested. Aside from...

...notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion ..." (2: 91). Publius's invocation of this universalized notion of "interest" in relation to his nevertheless...

...Federalist No. 2: Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.20 (Emphasis added) In the same vein, Thomas Jefferson stated: It...

...notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counpeople seem to have been ,, „ ... . , . , sels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout...

...as Jay (No. 2) describes it: "one connected country [given by Providence] to one connected people, a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...government, very similar in their manners and customs." A government, as both Hamilton and Madison recognized, is only as good as its administration; the administration...

...different nationalities." Even earlier, John Jay, writing in the Federalist, stressed that Americans were "descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same...government, very similar in their manners and customs." He added that they were surely "a band of brethren" and "should never be split into a number of unsocial,...