Abstract
For the American political elite, the decade and a half that followed the Declaration of Independence was a period of tumult and anxiety. The economies of the newly independent states were extremely volatile; many fortunes were made, but many others were lost. The exhilaration produced by the victory over the British was undercut by the snubs and rebuffs received by American diplomats in their first forays abroad. The populace as a whole seemed to be losing the public-spiritedness-the willingness to subordinate their private desires to the good of the community-that had helped power the Revolution and that was crucial to the maintenance of a
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