"When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven."

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Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.

Herbert Croly

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