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Assembly Room, Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
Birthplace of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. (Independence
National Historical Park.)
spoke for many European onlookers when he congratulated the Americans on escaping the ‘‘ghosts’’ that had haunted Europe. The Framers
had written not only a new Constitution but a new chapter in the history
of mankind. The world would never be the same.
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Catherine Drinker Bowen, Miracle at Philadelphia (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1966).
M. E. Bradford, Founding Fathers: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994).
Trevor Colbourn, ed., Fame and the Founding Fathers. Essays by Douglas Adair (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1998).
Wesley Frank Craven, The Legend of the Founding Fathers (New York: New York University Press, 1956).