Reflection and Choice versus Accident and Force

From The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, Jay
Hamilton frames the ratification debate as a world-historical test of whether humans can establish good government deliberately rather than by accident and force.
Federalist No. 1 (Hamilton)

The founding statement of purpose: whether 'societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.'

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