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Tag: Mixed Government

  • A Radical Political Experiment

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    Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By: Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives.

    Pennsylvania was the home of the “most radical ideas about politics and constitutional authority voiced in the Revolution.” Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic: 1776-1787, 226. This resulted in a “comprehensive examination of assumptions about government that elsewhere were generally taken for granted” and it resulted in one of the greatest experiments in politics up to that time. Id.

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  • The Balance of Mixed Government

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    Alexander Hamilton, as Secretary of the Treasury. By: John Trumbull.

    Conservatives and liberals during the Revolutionary years realized that democracy must have power distributed throughout various sources, known as a mixed government, so as to survive.

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