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 the same moon and stars to shine by night, with the same people, the same able men; the May-flower compact had been written; the Declaration of Independence had been adopted; there was a yearning desire to have a stable government; but after operating under the Articles of Confederation for twelve years, from 1776 to 1788, we were in a good deal the same condition in this country that Russia is today. In 1787 we wrote the Constitution, founded the republic, and in twelve years we had made unbounded progress and won the admiration of the world because of our form of government."

No better proof could be given of the great importance that the form of government plays in the welfare and progress of a people.

It is high time that the people of the world should be aroused and become wide-awake to the tremendous truth that the vital significance of the work of the men who wrote the Constitution and founded the republic is that they evolved the standard form of government.

Each individual has a threefold relationship: the relation to God, the relation to government, and the relation to society. When one acquires the right concept of God and the right concept of government, it almost assures a right relationship toward society.