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Passionate and logical.
The Founding Fathers, wrote the Declaration of Independence. This document was logical, yet not intellectual. Passionate, yet not personal. It was very simple. Well thought out, but simple. It was constructed that way so that even simple minded could understand. It was logical in all it's aspects. For instance, the text states, "whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government."
Predators, floods, fires, droughts, sickness, etc
The federal/central/national government was weak under the Articles of Confederation
These events relate most directly to <span>(1) revised understandings of natural surroundings, since all of them were landmark times in history for discovery. </span>