...taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people-a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...established their general liberty and independence." This illusion of ethnic unity underscores the deep-seatedness of American racism, which informs a parallel...

...taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people-a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...established their general liberty and independence." This illusion of ethnic unity underscores the deep-seatedness of American racism, which informs a parallel...

...ethnic dimension. 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.147 Less than 200 years later, Michael Walzer, a leading intellectual advocate of civil...

...The Federalist Papers, "has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence."1 Even at the time he wrote these words, however, Jay's words reflected...

...The Federalist Papers, "has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people— a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence."1 Jay, however, was wrong. Not only were small numbers of Catholics...

...The Federalist Papers, "has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...similar in their manners and customs, and who, by then" joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have...

...notice, that 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." Implicit in his word map is the dialectical assumption that, by mapping the territory of the nation,...

...assert 'that 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' he was describing a nation that did not, neither at the time of writing nor since, exist.8 Jay's conceptualization...

...Federalist No. 2: "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. ... To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people."100 But this view was hardly shared...

...federal government. As John Jay wrote in Federalist Paper 2, Americans were "one united people — a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking...government, very similar in their manners and customs," a commonality that had produced in the people a "universal and uniform attachment to the cause of Union"...