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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Robert Dale Owen
Born: November 7, 1801
Died: June 24, 1877 (aged 75)
Bio: Robert Dale Owen was a Scottish-born American social reformer who was a longtime exponent in the United States of the socialist doctrines of his father, Robert Owen, as well as a politician in the Democratic Party.
Known for:
- Twenty-seven years of autobiography
- Hints on public architecture
- Owen's moral physiology
- Beyond The Breakers