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Originally Posted by odd_fish_9  The signers of the Constitution were almost all local boys - born, raised, and educated in the Americas.
The exceptions were one, a native of Liverpool, and another from St Croix; both emigrated as children. A third had been an officer in the British army, and a fourth was born and educated in Scotland.
In my book that makes the Constitution an almost entirely, and uniquely, American creation. |
The Constitution was based on the French model. To claim that it was an American creation simply because the "boys" were born in the US is incredibly naive. Jefferson thought himself a citizen of the world, Franklin also.
All these "boys" education was based on the European model.
What makes the Constitution unique is that it was a compromise between extremist viewpoints. The fact that so many
men from so many disparate backgrounds were able to come up with something so relatively solid is amazing.