After the lapse of six thousand years since the creation of the world, America now presents the first instance of a people assembled to say deliberately and calmly and to decide leisurely and peaceably on the form of government by which they will bind themselves and their posterity.
Beck highlights the unprecedented nature of the American Constitutional Convention in the context of history.
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