...one side: Providence had been pleased to give this "one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...the same principles of government, very similar in manner and customs." From within the Protestant empire, Princeton's noted Charles Hodge in 1829 was...

...Federalist paper that "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 . . . similar in their manners and customs."3 In 1916, the liberal writer Randolph Bourne reflected...

...notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people— a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...this people seem to have been made for each other" (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers, ed. Clinton Rossiter [New...

...Federalist 2: Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...war, have nobly established their general liberty and independence.82 But can anyone say today that we Americans are "one united people"? We are not descended...

...dreamed as much. "Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country, to one united people; a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...government, very similar in their manners and customs." Yet the United States was already far more diverse than he suggested. It is likely that his hyperbole...

...in the Making Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people— a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...government, very similar in their manners and customs. . . . —The Federalist Nativism has been hard for historians to define. The word is distinctively...

...DIFFERENCE AS DISSOLUTION In The Federalist No. 2, John Jay wrote that Americans were one ethnic group — "descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same...government, very similar in their manners and customs. . . ." (1787/1937, p. 9). They were, he said, a "band of brethren." The brethren faced a common danger,...

...and Ethnicity: OMB Directive No. 15 [Americans are a providentially guided] band of brethren . . . descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same...government, very similar in their manners and customs. — John Jay, in the second Federalist paper (quoted in Rogers 1997, p. 15) here is a certain irony...

...ratifica: ...Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people— a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...professing the same religion, attached to the same principies of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels,...

...no. 2, pretended that the population of the new United States, in 1787, formed 'one united people - a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion ... very similar in manners and customs' (Madison et al. 1987 [1787]: 91). Not surprisingly, 'Negroes...