They had a rapidly expandingpeople for commercially oriented and a government that was specifically set up to safeguard their own liberty. But that was an aspiration more than it was the fact. America was not at its infancy at its birth, country that was going to influence the rest of the world and its example. This is the cover of my book. For those of you in the back. Squint really hard. You might be able to see that there is a map in the background. You can stop squinting because his what the map actually is. If you cant read elections the title of the map is north america as divided among the european powers, 1770 format. You have on the map spanish french british and russian territorial claims in north america. This map is a much more accurate depiction about how the founding generation sal america. European monarchy, hostile to the idea of a republic had territorial designs on north america and were very ideologically suspicious of a republic. So when the founding generation thou