One united people

Article author: 
John Jay
Article date: 
3 October 2018
Article category: 
Our American Future
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In Federalist 2, John Jay famously wrote:

... Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion ... very similar in their manners and customs...

This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties."

- John Jay, October 31, 1787


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