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make up the world of particular persons in favor of the leveling of
humanity.

T

he unwritten or providential constitution replaces the social
contract in order to ground the actual Constitution by limiting the range of potentialities it can develop and manifest. These
limits also provide reasons for affirmation of an architecture of
devotion to a country's actual constitution, its way of life. This
particular or political way of thinking recaptures something of
the Greek polis, but with the Christian addition that each of us is
more than a citizen through our relational devotion as creatures
to the church. The American republic is also to be distinguished
from the tribe in its devotion to a common good that's much more
than collective selfishness. The American idea of the providential
constitution places our particular country under the universal yet
still relational and personal God.
Thus, America's written Constitution of 1787 has to be understood by the unwritten order of its common law heritage, the
colonists' practice of self-government, religious pluralism, the
colonies as separate and then unified political actors in war,
largely democratic emigration patterns, and colonial resistance
to and gained independence from an empire that had abused
historic common law rights and its own tradition of limited government. Our framers built as statesmen, and as such they drew
from all the sources that history, philosophy, political precedent,
religion, and the rest of our civilized tradition had given them.
In the United States, the citizen is a member of both the state
and the nation. This dual status reflected, in part, the preexisting political settlement of the colonies. Brownson believes that
two facts are salient: the colonies had instinctually united in their
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