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Fortunately, the framers of the Constitution had learned a rude and terrible lesson in the anarchy that had followed the War of Independence.
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Beck highlights the lessons learned by the framers from the chaos following the War of Independence.
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In any study of a World Constitution, the example of those who framed the American Constitution can be studied with profit.
The men who framed the Covenant of the League tried to do, under more difficult, but not dissimilar, conditions, what the framers of the American Constitution did in 1787.
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