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Clark: The Constitution was written in 1787, six years after Yorktown and four years after the peace treaty was signed. Tensions were still high - IIRC, the Royal Navy had problems with recognizing the US as a real country - although it took another twenty years to blow up again. (Remember that John Adams and Jefferson were still very much alive during the war of 1812, although they were elder ststesmen then.)
when our fathers fought and won two World Wars simultaneously
The consensus in blogland is that he meant consecutively, and also that WW2 was, by the nature of the two fronts so far apart, pretty nearly two world wars simultaneously.
I kind of wish he'd made more speeches like this five years ago. Maybe we'd have avoided having shrub.
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