And the founders bequeathed us a form of government that is capable of dealing with almost any challenge, so long as enough citizens agree action is needed.
"Because the American people were the most educated in the world, they were in the best position to invent, be entrepreneurial, and produce goods and services using advanced technologies, " they write (nodding, of course, to other preconditions such as secure property rights and a form of government sympathetic to free markets).
Afghan officials told the BBC that in addition to his criticisms of the president, Mr Rohrabacher was being shunned because of meetings he had held in Berlin with Afghan politicians about the creation of a decentralised form of government.
Because on the one hand, of course, a theocratic form of government is not consistent with the Constitution of the United States or the freedoms that it enshrines, or the government that it prescribes.
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The U.S. Constitution, Article IV Section 4, guarantees to 'every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.
Though the two personally rank high in opinion polls, they have not found a way to translate their popularity into power in a parliamentary form of government.
Karzai described the payments as a form of "government-to-government" assistance, and while he wouldn't say how much the CIA gave to the National Directorate of Security, which is the Afghan intelligence service, he said the financial help was very useful.
And whatever the challenges we face today, they are not as great or difficult as the challenge of crafting a whole new form of government.
Besides, a more complicated form of government protects the people from a possibly tyrannical legislature.
In a statesmanlike way, he has promised to form a government of national unity.
After Mr Ben Ali's departure, his prime minister since 1999, Mohammed Ghannouchi, a veteran RCD leader, announced he would form a government of national unity, with the speaker of parliament, Foued Mebazaa, temporarily filling the presidency.
So I think you're going to continue to see a very centralized form of government over there in the near term, but a lot of innovative thinking going on.
The new prime minister of Italy, Mario Monti, seems on course to form a government of supposedly technocratic talent.
This is a -- this is what young democracies go through to form a government, a representative government of the people.
Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali said he wanted to form a government of technocrats, to ease tensions.
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Mr Hassan said he intended to form a government of national unity, and confirmed presidential elections would go ahead in 2013 as planned.
Under last October's Conakry agreement, the junta was supposed to give up power and Mr Kabbah was to return and form a government of national unity.
Meanwhile, U.S.-based analyst Shibley Telhami said Freedom and Justice MPs he met with in Washington this week are already facing complaints from disgruntled Egyptians, even before they form a government of their own.
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He believes a more consensual form of government is the most appropriate for the island and hopes all the members of the new house will work together to achieve this, no matter what their views.
Analysts say a unified government is key to stability in Iraq and the failure of lawmakers to form a new government after the March 7 national elections could exacerbate violence.
However, his coalition looks to be on the margins of efforts to form a new government, and the outcome of this court case is unlikely to have any direct bearing on those negotiations.
If this were to be an outcome of Mr Arafat's current round of meetings to form a new government, it would appease many of his domestic critics.
The prime minister, an Ennahda member, wants to form a new government of non-political technocrats.
This was in the form of a government contribution to pension funds to match contributions by taxpayers.
Would it matter to taxpayers offended by the practice whether the reward came in the form of a government stipend or a tax credit?
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Prime Minister George Papandreou, having offered to form a coalition government of national unity with the right wing opposition, and failed, has been trying to reshuffle his cabinet to regain legitimacy.
Opponents claimed that he wanted to inflict a defeat on the judiciary ahead of a law reform later this year, and that he also hoped to cow the president as part of a broader strategy aimed at taking over the presidency himself and giving Italy what his admirers say would be a more decisive form of presidential government.
You would probably see a second attempt to form a national government in the wake of a controlled default, uncontrolled would almost certainly lead to a snap election.
With a strong nudge from the federal government in the form of a tax law known as 401(k), employers liberated their workers.
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