...it is true, as John Jay wrote in the Federalist n. 2, that the Americans were "one united people - a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...religion, attached to the same principles of government" (quoted in Beard 1964: 39), it is also true that this united people became conscious that it existed...

...Dicey l9l5: 75) Procidence has heen pleased to give this one connerted coumry to one united people a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...same religion, attached to the same principles of governmeut, very similar in their manners and their customs, and who, hy their joim counsels, arms...

...Federalist paper 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 . . . similar in their manners and customs" (62). In 1916, the liberal writer Randolph Bourne reflected...

...Dicey i9l5: 75) Providence has heen 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, anached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and their customs, and...

...exclaimed this descendant of Huguenot refugees, "g[a]ve this one connected country, to one united people, a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...established their general Liberty and Independence." Much of this landscape was imaginary. The "country" had not always been "connected." New Netherland,...

...84. No. 16, p. 84. 85. No. 15, pp. 76-77, 78. 86. No. 16, p. 84. 87. No. 17, p. 88. 88. No. 2, p. 6: "a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...established their general liberty and independence." 89. No. 17, p. 87. 90. No. 19, pp. 98, 100,101; Bodin's account is in République, I, 7 (K 75-79, emphasizing...

...notice that Providence has 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. . . ." In short, they saw no reason to designate English as the official language when all people who...

...vision: Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same...government, very similar in their manners and customs. (Hamilton, Jay, and Madison 8-9) Benjamin Franklin, who saw distinctions among those we would today...

..."Providence," he asserts, "has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...the same principles of government, very similar in manners and customs."19 Jay's claim was rooted, to some degree, in social fact. Eighty percent of the...

...Federalist Papers: "Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...same religion, attached to the same principles of government."14 In colonial and post-Revolution discussions of language, we find the familiar theme...