It is a product of its own era, and liberalism was the philosophy that drove much of the political actions in the early United States. The same can be said of The Federalist. These were a collection of essays regarding the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. They are also set upon the basic premise that all people are created equal, and that humans have certain unalienable rights that a nation or state needs to respect and honor (Hamilton, et al., 2003). The men who wrote the essays were certainly trying to create a good regime through their own beliefs and values. Their ideas, which later led to the founding of a nation, are key in understanding what they believed a good regime was, and how one behaved. Their writings are a mixture of many political philosophers, and many eras. The founders believed strongly in the separation of church and state, similar to Nietzsche. Even though Nietzsche was born well after the period surrounding the founding of the U.S., they were adamant about this idea.

The founders also believed in virtue and of an overseeing authority. They were quick to distrust the intentions of men and created a checks and balances system in the structure of the new government. The underlying thought behind this system was the fact that men will often justify the means with a good outcome, or end, and that all the trust and power should be spread out among the branches of government, so the good regime could most fairly and virtuously create, enact, and enforce the laws...

The beauty of this time period is the fact that the founders had access to many different philosophies and were able to incorporate much of them into the founding of a new nation. They were able to pick and choose, as a group, which political philosophies to implement and which ones did not fit their idea of what the nation should be founded upon. The United States is certainly not a perfectly set-up regime, but the founders were able to use their own philosophical knowledge to create the best nation they could at the time.
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