This was a novelty in the moral philosophy of nations, and it is the essential point of difference between the system of government announced in the Declaration of Independence and those systems which had until then prevailed among men.… It was an experiment upon the heart of man.
Sumner describes the Declaration as a groundbreaking moral experiment in governance.
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