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| Early Yankee politics was identified by a | | | | Both sides agreed that the will of the majority, as |
| partisanship no less intense than that experienced | | | | expressed through a general majority of elected |
| today. In truth, the clash between Federalists and | | | | delegates, was the elemental principle of a |
| Anti-Federalists in America's early years essentially | | | | republican government. Consequently, nowhere |
| causes modern conflicts between Republicans and | | | | does the Constitution permit any minority group |
| democrats to appear like child's play, and rhetoric | | | | to exert more power or influence than the |
| and methods widely employed then would never | | | | majority ; and a straightforward majority is |
| be endured today. | | | | always needed for the passage of each law and |
| Yet, not withstanding those intense partisan | | | | policy ( only for outstanding measures like a |
| conflicts, there were certain fundamental | | | | constitutional amendment was more than a |
| constitutional guidelines on which both Federalists | | | | majority vote permitted ). |
| and Anti-Federalists agreed - fixed boundaries | | | | About David Barton |
| beyond which neither would proceed. One of the | | | | David Barton wants to share something with you. |
| nonnegotiable lines that neither side would cross | | | | Wedding is a contract both civil and religious, by |
| was a principle they considered to be the inviolable | | | | that the parties engage to live together in mutual |
| basis of our republican kind of presidency - a | | | | love and fidelity till death shall separate them. |
| canon clearly declared by George Washington : | | | | Webster's original compendium then gave a Biblical |
| [T]he basic principle of our Constitution. Enjoins | | | | example to show the function of the word:. One |
| [requires] that the will of the majority shall | | | | of the finest techniques to deal with the new |
| overcome. Washington, although he lived through | | | | agenda is to renounce the new definition and |
| a period of intense partisanship, was | | | | continue to use the 1st. Or, as Proverbs 22:28 |
| comparatively non-partisan. Let me. Warn you in | | | | smartly teaches [*CO]'Do not move a |
| the most solemn demeanour against the | | | | conventional boundary stone set up by your |
| unfavourable effects of the spirit of party. In all | | | | forefathers.' One means to help preserve the |
| governments. And is actually their worst enemy. ). | | | | traditional'boundary stones' of Biblical meanings is |
| But Washington also had ardent Anti-Federalists in | | | | to use Noah Webster's original 1828 compendium |
| his cupboard - such as Secretary of State | | | | rather than the new online compendium that are |
| Thomas Jefferson. Yet, Jefferson totally | | | | moving more and more away from Biblical |
| concurred with Washington on the elemental | | | | meanings. |
| principle of republican government, declaring : | | | | . |
| Perhaps even this may sometimes err. But its | | | | |