. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... TORY OF THE NATION: ITS BIRTH, CONFLICTS,AND TRIUMPHS. i PAET II. THE STORY OF THE NATION : ITS BIRTH, CONFLICTS, AND TRIUIMPHS. CHAPTER I. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Forming a Government. — The Constitution and its Makers. — Grand Celebration in NewYork City. — Thfe Two Political Parties. —Washington made President. — InaugurationBall. —Change in Dress and Manners after the Revolution. For six years after the Revolution, these thirteen Uni
. The history of our country from its discovery by Columbus to the celebration of the centennial anniversary of its declaration of independence ... TORY OF THE NATION: ITS BIRTH, CONFLICTS,AND TRIUMPHS. i PAET II. THE STORY OF THE NATION : ITS BIRTH, CONFLICTS, AND TRIUIMPHS. CHAPTER I. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Forming a Government. — The Constitution and its Makers. — Grand Celebration in NewYork City. — Thfe Two Political Parties. —Washington made President. — InaugurationBall. —Change in Dress and Manners after the Revolution. For six years after the Revolution, these thirteen United Stateshad no government ex-cept that exercised bythe Continental Con-gress which had■worked so hard allthrough the war. ThisCongress was doingits best to pay off thedebts due its armies;arrange for new loansof money from foreigncountries; keep thequarrelsome Indians incheck ; and administerjustice to the utmost ofits power. But it wasthe general opinion thatthere must be a newgovernment, although,whenever it was talkedover, there was a greatdifference among thepeople as to the kind which would suit the country best. A large. -^/^ ,^^^e^~7Kj 284 STORY OF OUR COUNTRY. party were for State Rights, meaning the right of each St:iteto beindependent of the others, with an agreement that all should unite intimes of war, or in the event of the invasion of an enemy into anyone of the States. Another party wanted a strong, united govern-ment, which should bind all the States into a great nation, one and indivisible. Anotherparty, who thought theEnglish form of limitedmonarchy, about as gooda government as could bemade, would have been gladto have had such an one inthis country. This was asmall party, however. Thelargest part of the peo-ple believed in a repub-lic, and in being governedby men chosen from amongtheir own ranks for a lim-ited time. The Americancolonies had flourished fora century and a half, witha whole broad ocean be-tween themselves and theirmonarch, and c
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