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““Again, John Adams understood that the new Constitution simply lacked the powers to control a people who were, by their own lack of virtue, unruly. He wrote: We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.50 “In other words,” explained Benjamin True, “if you don’t want some king or dictator being in charge of your behavior, you’re going to have to be the sort of people who will look after your own behavior.””

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