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... JEFFERSON The historic controversy between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson has affected the lives of every American citizen for almost one hundred and fifty years . For the two party system in American politics owes its ...
... JEFFERSON The historic controversy between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson has affected the lives of every American citizen for almost one hundred and fifty years . For the two party system in American politics owes its ...
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... Jefferson stood up to take the oath of office . The election of 1800 that brought Thomas Jefferson to the Presi- dency has often been called the Second American Revolution . When the smoke of the bitter election cleared the two ...
... Jefferson stood up to take the oath of office . The election of 1800 that brought Thomas Jefferson to the Presi- dency has often been called the Second American Revolution . When the smoke of the bitter election cleared the two ...
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... JEFFERSON'S LAST LETTER Perhaps the most interested spectator of these stirring times was Thomas Jefferson , now in his eighties , but still the Sage of Monticello . In 1826 , with the approach of the Fourth of July , the city of Wash ...
... JEFFERSON'S LAST LETTER Perhaps the most interested spectator of these stirring times was Thomas Jefferson , now in his eighties , but still the Sage of Monticello . In 1826 , with the approach of the Fourth of July , the city of Wash ...
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George Washington writes his wife of his selection as Com | 3 |
refuses to answer a letter and loses thirteen fine | 9 |
Benjamin Franklin makes a freak suggestion | 15 |
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