More extraordinary still, even after independence was achieved, and a firm Union accomplished under that wonderful document, the Constitution adopted in 1789, we still see traces of the same feeling lingering here and there in our own country.
Roosevelt points out that even after independence, remnants of colonial attitudes persisted in America.
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