Our friends at “What Would the Founders Think” posted this discussion of Federalist #1’s most famous sentence.

It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.

Something to ponder on this day after Independence Day.