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Excerpt from Democracy and the Party System in the United States: A Study in Extra-Constitutional Government
The American Constitution has been for long a subject of admiration. Indeed, seldom has a people found amid the tempest which usually aecom panies the establishment of liberty and independence leaders as sagacious and acute as were the founders of the Constitution of the United States. They knew history, they understood man, they fathomed the great political thinkers of the age, they gauged the noble as well as the petty passions which gave themselves free play during the period of the pain ful beginnings of the new nation. But they could not foresee the destiny of their country, they had no idea of the course along which it was to be carried by its economic evolution. Their work, there fore, has not altogether stood the test of time. The political and social evolution of the United States has rendered some parts of it obsolete. The Fathers did not anticipate the ?ood of Democracy rising above the gates erected, nor the all-pervading development of Party, nor the coming of conquering Plutocracy. I.
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