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Article: Skeletons in the Closet.(Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power)(An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America)(Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson)(Book Review)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- January 5, 2004
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Perhaps the best way to understand the history of the early American Republic is as a prolonged variation on the theme of the French Revolution. Although the starting date for that event is usually given as 1789, the process actually began a year or two earlier with a strange aristocratic prelude. Up in arms over royal centralization, the French nobility seized on the state's growing fiscal crisis to call for a return to the "balanced" Constitution of more than a century earlier when the aristocracy and the church had served as an effective counterweight to the power of the throne and the provinces were able to hold their own against Paris. In order for society to advance, ...
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