Joseph Ellis - Founding Brothers (2000)

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Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.

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Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

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The very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

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