No problem with your erudite #200. But I would add to your natural law awareness discussion, the dynamic factor that made that awareness so natural for the first Americans. You had the multi-generational experience of peoples who had literally built socio/political communities from the ground up. (See America Built On Experience & Reason.)
Thank you for that link. I look forward to reading it.
Americans were given an opportunity to create a society without the previous baggage such as Aristocracy and religious intolerance which had so set the European nations against one another.
We succeeded... at first.
204 posted on 11/06/2015 9:25:38 AM PST by DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")