The Miracle Of The United States – The Hope Of The World

The founders of the United States shared a common vision of freedom for the people of all nations. This was a frequent subject in their writings as the pursued their objective of creating the world’s first truly free nation in which all people would prosper and live in peace. The Founding Fathers envisioned their new republic as a model for the rest of the world.

More than a decade before participating in writing the Declaration of Independence, John Adams recorded his vision of hope blossoming in the colonies in his diary on February 21, 1765:
“I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder– as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.”

In the same vein, James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 14:


“Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society. They reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe. They formed the design of a great Confederacy, which it is incumbent on their successors to improve and perpetuate.”

Thomas Jefferson seemed to be constantly searching the world for innovative principles which would improve the well-being of not only his fellow Virginian and united colonists but also the people of other nations. On March 6, 1801, President Jefferson wrote to his old friend, John Dickinson:

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