This philosophy is the groundwork for what we now more wholly understand as laws of nature, in whatever form, not to be exploited or undermined. ... Along with advances in science and technology, philosophers began to see the world as governed by natural laws such as gravity and motion. ... Jefferson's words of the new Constitution were based on strong merit, but may have been overly optimistic considering the state of morality at the time: "I believe this the strongest government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the...

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