Starting with the Declaration of Independence. They later the next decade went and had to formulate a constitution. As they're doing all these things, they were very smart about history. They studied the history of every republic for the history of mankind. And they tried to draw lessons from them. And the one lesson, there was really only one common thread that united all previous republics in human history. And it was this. Every single one of them had failed. (05:58–06:05)
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