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BYU professors highlight the significance of BYU 250
Brigham Young University Professor Tyson Reeder believes the founding fathers hoped to create a great nation when they signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 but never could have envisioned the scale of what it would could become. There was no precedent, he said, for establishing a republic across such a vast territory where people of different beliefs and backgrounds could unite to form a functional nation led by the people. “It was just unheard of,” Reeder said. “The conventional wisdom of the time was that a representative republic, or a democracy, needs to be confined ...
