Founding Partisans

Founding PartisansTo the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of the

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'Maryland Beauty' is a female plant and requires a male plant for sufficient pollination to produce red berries

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