[Billthedrill]

I think it’s pure gold. Off to do some reading. ;-)

[loveliberty2]

Oh, it is pure gold! Combining JQA's analysis of the philosophy and principles upon which America was formed with the ideas-based thought of historian Richard Frothingham in his 1872 "Rise of the Republic of the United States," provides good grounding for reading various other accounts.

That is why JQA's account of what he described as the Articles' "departure" from the principles of the Declaration, and the Constitution as a "return" to those principles is so very interesting.

Enjoy!