“My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to speak the language of ‘We, the People,’ instead of ‘We, the States’?” Patrick Henry, 1788 (Orations of American Orators)

America entered the world of the 18th century as one of the first Democratic/Republic countries. She had to deal with settling the Native American situation to her north, south and west, along with negotiating her relationships with the other countries of the world. Internally America needed to establish her own traditions in government, culture, economics and  social systems.