[antiRepublicrat]

Yeah, I guess it was kind of rhetorical. When I say things like that in this context the question I’m actually asking is “What in the Constitution authorizes this?” and relating to parties it’s “Did no one here read Washington’s farewell address?”

[jamese777]

“Yeah, I guess it was kind of rhetorical. When I say things like that in this context the question I’m actually asking is “What in the Constitution authorizes this?” and relating to parties it’s “Did no one here read Washington’s farewell address?”

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However even General Washington eventually got beaten down by the Hamilton-Adams/Jefferson-Madison rush to coalesce around political ideologies. Washington allowed himself and his image to become the face of the strong central government/central bank Federalist Party of Hamilton.