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It was the after result of the Revolution, not the Revolution itself, which gave to the governmental experiment inaugurated by the Second Continental Congress its unique and lasting value.
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Roosevelt highlights that the true value of the Revolutionary War's outcomes was realized in the governance established afterward.
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