Argument 1: American Exceptionalism It is a noble land that God has given us; a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe, a greater England with a nobler destiny. It is a mighty people that He has planted on this soil; a people sprung from the most masterful blood of history; a people perpetually revitalized by the virile, man—producing, working—folk of all the earth; a people imperial by virtue of their power, by right of their institutions... It is a glorious history our God has bestowed upon His chosen people; a history heroic with faith in our mission and our future; a history of statesmen who flung the boundaries of the Republic out into unexplored lands and savage wilderness . . . Close Reading: How does Senator Beveridge describe the PEOPLE of the United States? 2. Close Reading: How does Senator Beveridge describe the HISTORY of the United States?

Argument 1: American Exceptionalism It is a noble land that God has given us; a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe, a greater England with a nobler destiny. It is a mighty people that He has planted on this soil; a people sprung from the most masterful blood of history; a people perpetually revitalized by the virile, man—producing, working—folk of all the earth; a people imperial by virtue of their power, by right of their institutions... It is a glorious history our God has bestowed upon His chosen people; a history heroic with faith in our mission and our future; a history of statesmen who flung the boundaries of the Republic out into unexplored lands and savage wilderness . . . Close Reading: How does Senator Beveridge describe the PEOPLE of the United States? 2. Close Reading: How does Senator Beveridge describe the HISTORY of the United States?