Power Of Democracy In Gordon Wood's Revolutionary Characters

In the epilog of the book, “Revolutionary Characters,” Gordon Wood wrote, “Still, they had helped create this popular world, for it was rooted in the vital principle that none of them, Federalists included, ever could deny: the people. In the end nothing illustrates better the transforming power of the American Revolution than the way its intellectual and political leaders, that remarkable group of men, contributed to their own demise,” (page 274). This quote means that although these leaders were impeccable at what they did, they contributed to the death of the nation. The founders created the democracy for the people and Wood wrote that no one can deny that its sole purpose is to work for and govern the people. They established the roots