Reading the founding fathers of this era, this tension is expressed in the epithets of “monarchist” and “democrat.” Every move, by every person involved, seemingly took us in one of those two directions – if there was another pathway, it proved to be obscured for some time.

Adams to Rush: “My Country appears to me, I assure you in great danger of fatal Divisions, and especially because I Scarcely know of two Persons, who think, Speak and Act alike in matters of [Governmen]t.”

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