The First Congress
Fergus M. Bordewich · 2016
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From the Introduction... As Congress assembled that dank and chilly spring of 1789, the world seemed new, and Americans felt in their hearts that they stood at the dawn of a new epoch. “All ranks & degrees of men seemed to be actuated by one common impulse, to fill the galleries as soon as the doors of the House of Representatives were opened for the first time,” recalled an elderly James Kent, who as an enthralled child had watched the Congress's first stirrings. “I considered it to be a proud & glorious day, the consummation of our wishes; & that I was looking upon an organ of popular will, just beginning to breathe the Breath of Life, & which might in some future age, much more truly than the Roman Senate, be regarded as ‘the refuge of nations.' ”
Book details
- Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Editions
- 7
- Pages
- 396
- ISBN
- 9781451692136
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