The Founding Fathers knew that social harmony would form the backbone of America. In his celebrated pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine held that “it is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.”38 James Madison, in the fourteenth Federalist Paper, warned that the “most alarming of all novelties, the most wild of all projects, the most rash of all attempts, is that of rendering us in pieces, in order to preserve our liberties and promote our happiness.”39
