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green for victory

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11. TJ

Wed Mar 6, 2013, 06:14 AM

Mar 2013

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

Letter to Abigail Smith Adams from Paris while a Minister to France (22 February 1787), referring to Shay's Rebellion. "Jefferson's Service to the New Nation," Library of Congress

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Founding Fathers: Beware the Two-Party System [View all] kentuck Mar 2013 OP

K&R... midnight Mar 2013 #1

K&R newfie11 Mar 2013 #2

They disliked parties in general BainsBane Mar 2013 #3

Radical idea... awoke_in_2003 Mar 2013 #5

Frank Rich Nailed It Tonight colsohlibgal Mar 2013 #4

K&R DeSwiss Mar 2013 #6

However, what they wanted was a one-party system. caseymoz Mar 2013 #7

Ours was the alpha, a prototype, and they knew that. They never intended it to Egalitarian Thug Mar 2013 #9

Benjamin Franklin compared it to a two-headed snake slithering towards water. raouldukelives Mar 2013 #8

I'm not sure things would be different without political parties magellan Mar 2013 #10

TJ green for victory Mar 2013 #11

A HUGE K & R Le Taz Hot Mar 2013 #12

Our country's two-party system is not official. MineralMan Mar 2013 #13

Yet, they absolutely ensured it would come to pass. Gee, I wonder why. DevonRex Mar 2013 #14