The Civil War in America

Tags: Political Theory, War and Foreign Policy, World History

03/29/2010 Lord Acton

It is remarkable that the Constitution was little trusted or admired by the wisest and most illustrious of its founders, and that its severest and most desponding critics were those whom Americans revere as the fathers of their country, writes Lord Acton.

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