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• ‟ In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

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• ‟ Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

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• ‟ When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.

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• ‟ The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.

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• ‟ Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.

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