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Article: Novus ordo seclorum: the intellectual origins of the constitution.
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- National Review
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- April 11, 1986
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Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the constitution
THE STATURE of Forrest McDonald as an interpreter of the confluence of language, thought, and action that issued in the United States Constitution was extraordinary even before the publication of his most recent consideration of that subject. Now, with Novus Ordo Seclorum (a title taken from the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States), his authority is unequaled--magisterial. That the production of this book was inevitable is, in retrospect upon its author's career as an American historian, apparent. But it is an especially fortunate conjunction that the maturity of his reflection upon ...