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To: C210N

But Patrick Henry was one of the Anti-Federalists, a faction that eventually became the Democratic Party.


6 posted on 09/15/2011 6:34:09 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill
But Patrick Henry was one of the Anti-Federalists, a faction that eventually became the Democratic Party...

But, at the time there was no 'rat party, and he was concerned of the potential largesse that would become a national government - elements of today's 'Rat party. Only irony that he would be part of the early 'Rat party of the day.

12 posted on 09/15/2011 6:47:01 PM PDT by C210N (0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
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To: Fiji Hill
But Patrick Henry was one of the Anti-Federalists, a faction that eventually became the Democratic Party.

In the debate over the Constitution he was an anti-Federalist and he didn't trust the Federalist Party in the early years.

By the time Patrick Henry died, though, he had turned to the Federalists and been elected to the Virginia House of Delegates as a Federalist.

35 posted on 09/16/2011 2:53:57 PM PDT by x
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