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as suggested by his response is a powerful lesson
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that a lot of people were focused on
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in the early years of the American republic
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and in this colonial period as well,
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and that is the fragility of liberties--
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and in the republic also obviously how fragile republics are.
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So the ancient world held really valuable lessons
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but so did the semi-recent past as well,
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particularly for the American colonists.
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There was another period of time
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that seemed to hold special lessons for them,
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the period of the Glorious Revolution in Britain,