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  • Section 9 Introduction

     |  Secession and Civil War

    Section 9 Introduction To secure their Creator-endowed natural rights, Americans constituted a form of government that addressed two distinct but related sets of questions: First, what regime will best secure those rights? That is: Who will rule in the United States? By what institutions will they rule? Finally, what way of life shall they pursue? Second, what kind of polity will best secure those rights? That is: How centralized will this system of government be? How extensive is its territory? How large is its population? The ancient Greek city-states had been centralized but small; the ancient empires and the feudal polities of Christian Europe had been large but decentralized. Modern states combined the size of some empires and many feudal realms with the ...
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