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One of my favorite SONGS OF

Richard Day — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:12:15 +0000

One of my favorite SONGS OF ALL TIME. Ramona, you got it!!!

Thanks DD. One other thing of

cmaukonen — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:08:49 +0000

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Thanks DD. One other thing of note which a lot of people forget is how much the Surpreme Court played in the politics of the country. Chief Justice John Marshal set the tone of the court for decades. He was a staunch Federalist and the tone of the court was biased towards business, bankers and property. All over any other rights of citizens. Especially those of the lower classes and those with out property.

And it all started with this

cmaukonen — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:55:53 +0000

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And it all started with this one election.

It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a campaign that climaxed in a deadlock in the Electoral College and led to a crisis in which the young republic teetered on the edge of collapse. Adams vs. Jefferson is a gripping account of a true turning point in American history, a dramatic struggle between two parties with profoundly different visions of how the nation should be governed. Adams led the Federalists, conservatives who favored a strong central government, and Jefferson led the Republicans, egalitarians who felt the Federalists had betrayed the Revolution of 1776 and were backsliding toward monarchy. The campaign itself was a barroom brawl every bit as ruthless as any modern contest, with mud-slinging--Federalists called Jefferson "a howling atheist"--scare tactics, and backstabbing. The low point came when Alexander Hamilton printed a devastating attack on Adams, the head of his own party, in "fifty-four pages of unremitting vilification." The election ended in a stalemate in the Electoral College that dragged on for days and nights and through dozens of ballots. Tensions ran so high that the Republicans threatened civil war if the Federalists denied Jefferson the presidency. Finally a secret deal that changed a single vote gave Jefferson the White House. A devastated Adams left Washington before dawn on Inauguration Day, too embittered even to shake his rival's hand. Jefferson's election, John Ferling concludes, consummated the American Revolution, assuring the democratization of the United States and its true separation from Britain.

Which resulted in our current system we have today.

Mainly I was attempting to

cmaukonen — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:43:28 +0000

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Mainly I was attempting to tie it all together. If I munged it up, I hope someone can fill in the details I missed.

Well Ramona, most of the

cmaukonen — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:42:20 +0000

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Well Ramona, most of the stuff came from the wikipedia entries on each party. But you have to really dig through the entries to get the interplay.

Really interesting stuff

Ramona — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:38:47 +0000

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Really interesting stuff here. Thanks for this, and when I get the chance I'll go through the links. I didn't see a source link for the quotes. Did I miss it?

But about your title: Love it! Reminds me of this old union song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iAIM02kv0g

I noted my observations at

Richard Day — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:01:40 +0000

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I noted my observations at the other blog.

But damn, there is NO sense of history in this country. I marvel at your previous discussions concerning education.

Rush and glennbeck and hannity just make up their own history.

Anyway, I love this blog!!!

Thank you for this post.

trkingmomoe — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:26:07 +0000

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Thank you for this post.