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The American Constitution is remarkable for its simplicity; but it can only suffice a people habitually correct in their actions, and would be utterly inadequate to the wants of a different nation. Change the domestic habits of the Americans, their religious devotion, and their high respect for morality, and it will not be necessary to change a single letter in the Constitution in order to vary the whole form of their government.

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I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as a stimulus to enterprise and as the most powerful restraint of public vice.... No government could be established on the same principle as that of the United States with a different code of morals.

Francis Grund

Francis Grund

Francis Grund

Born: September 19, 1805

Died: September 29, 1863 (aged 58)

Bio: Francis Joseph Grund was a German-born American journalist and author who wrote such works as The Americans in Their Moral, Social, and Political Relations.

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