 | Martin E. Marty - 1997 - 484 pages
...one side: Providence had 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 manner and customs." From within the Protestant empire, Princeton's noted Charles Hodge in 1829 was... | |
 | Atul Kohli - 2001 - 316 pages
...notice, that providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people - a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...religion, attached to the same principles of government" (Hamilton et al. 1941: 9). not solving the problem of communalism, fortunately facilitated the fashioning... | |
 | Dwight N. Hopkins - 2001 - 276 pages
...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."3 In 1916, the liberal writer Randolph Bourne reflected... | |
 | Patrick J. Buchanan - 2010 - 320 pages
...Federalist 2: Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...war, have nobly established their general liberty and independence.82 But can anyone say today that we Americans are "one united people"? We are not descended... | |
 | John Higham - 2002 - 464 pages
...in the Making 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. . . . —The Federalist Nativism has been hard for historians to define. The word is distinctively... | |
 | Daniel J. Tichenor - 2009 - 400 pages
...dreamed as much. "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." Yet the United States was already far more diverse than he suggested. It is likely that his hyperbole... | |
 | Walter Parker - 2003 - 217 pages
...DIFFERENCE AS DISSOLUTION In The Federalist No. 2, John Jay wrote that Americans were one ethnic group — "descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same...government, very similar in their manners and customs. . . ." (1787/1937, p. 9). They were, he said, a "band of brethren." The brethren faced a common danger,... | |
 | Dvora Yanow - 2003 - 276 pages
...and Ethnicity: OMB Directive No. 15 [Americans are a providentially guided] band of brethren . . . descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same...government, very similar in their manners and customs. — John Jay, in the second Federalist paper (quoted in Rogers 1997, p. 15) here is a certain irony... | |
 | Roamé Torres-González - 2002 - 452 pages
...ratifica: ...Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people— a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...professing the same religion, attached to the same principies of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels,... | |
 | C. M. Hann - 2002 - 362 pages
...no. 2, pretended that the population of the new United States, in 1787, formed 'one united people - a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion ... very similar in manners and customs' (Madison et al. 1987 [1787]: 91). Not surprisingly, 'Negroes... | |
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