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48. Ibid., 909.
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50. Ibid., 841.
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53. Jordan, et al., United States, 7, 162.
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55. Ibid., 168.
56. John F. Hoadley, Origins of American Political Parties, 1789–1803 (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1986).
57. John Lauritz Larson, “Jefferson’s Union and the Problem of Internal Improvements,” in Onuf, Jeffersonian Legacies, 340–69, quotation on 342.
58. Smith, John Adams, 842.
59. Paul Goodman, “The First American Party System,” in William N. Chambers and Walter Dean Burnham, eds., The American Party System: Stages of Political Development (Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 1967), 56–89.
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62. Ellis, Founding Brothers, 135.
63. Ibid.
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66. Ibid., 9.
67. Ellis, Founding Brothers, 190.
68. Ibid.
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75. Smith, John Adams, 846.
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77. Urofsky, March of Liberty, 177.
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121. Bailyn, The Great Republic, 279.
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