Why is it important that citizens and their representatives have civic virtue?

The Founders thought that civic virtue was important to make a government work well. Citizens need to participate in their government to promote the common good.

the civil war was a fulfillment and completion of the constitution, not a revolution against it. changes in culture and society surely affected political life. lincoln hoped to bring the north and south together after the war by healing the nationand making people lose their resentment.

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answer; andrew jackson approved nullification by signing it into law,and john calhoun opposed it saying it was unconstitutional;