Nations come into being in many ways such as Military rebellion, civil strife, acts of heroism, acts of treachery, a thousand greater and lesser clashes between defenders of the old order and supporters of the new. birth was unique. It was not only unique in the immensity of its later impact on the course of world history and the growth of democracy. Also because so many of the threads in our national history run back through time to come together in one place, in one time, and in one document. Thomas Jefferson, a thirty-three-year-old de ....