The Founders Principles
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America, in the late 1700s, boasted of a highly successful agricultural economy. The Founders of the United States believed that the American economy should be protected at all costs. Towards this end, they structured the national government such that it would have political functions that could protect and promote a prosperous economy. The American economy
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Lincolns lyceum Address, “I know the American People are much attached to their Government;–I know they would suffer much for its sake;–I know they would endure evils long and patiently, before they would ever think of exchanging it for another. Yet, notwithstanding all this, if the laws be continually despised and disregarded, if their rights to be secure in