...John Jay wrote: Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people, a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs.21 Jay was alluding to the natural preference of human beings to associate with people of their...

...American people. "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." You can see why Jay wrote this. Congress conducted all its business in English; almost everyone who...

...17-22. 12. "Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have established their general liberty and independence." Federalist 2 (John Jay). 13. Both the federal...

...the one reason why the United States could establish democracy so quickly was because its people 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 spilt into a number of unsocial,...