A New System of Government
Description
After the War for Independence, the struggle for a new system of government begins. Professor Maier looks at the creation of the Constitution of the United States. The Republic survives a series of threats to its union and the program ends with the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on the Fourth of July, 1826.
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25 min 51 sec
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