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... legislature until his death the small planters and the backwoodsmen regarded him as their particular friend . It was not a political power based on organization but a purely personal power . Jefferson , conscious of his own inability to ...
... legislature until his death the small planters and the backwoodsmen regarded him as their particular friend . It was not a political power based on organization but a purely personal power . Jefferson , conscious of his own inability to ...
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... legislature , was incompatible with a republic . It was one of the principal causes for the popular belief that Adams was a " monarchist . " It would probably never have disappeared if it had not been for Jackson but the existence of ...
... legislature , was incompatible with a republic . It was one of the principal causes for the popular belief that Adams was a " monarchist . " It would probably never have disappeared if it had not been for Jackson but the existence of ...
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... legislature to retire the Virginian quota of the continental debt , but he was unable to prevail over the popular opposition led by George Mason and R. H. Lee . At this period Henry was very much alive to the defects of the government ...
... legislature to retire the Virginian quota of the continental debt , but he was unable to prevail over the popular opposition led by George Mason and R. H. Lee . At this period Henry was very much alive to the defects of the government ...
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