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Guaranteed Human.

And we return to our American stories.

Up next, another installment of our series about us, the story of America

series with Bill McLeigh, Hillsdale College Professor and author of Land of Hope. Up next,

a story about Washington's farewell address. Let's get into it.

We have the gulf between these two visions, the golf between these two visions.

The golf between Jefferson and Hamilton, their visions of America, was a dramatic

golf.

The partisanship, the level of conflict, the polemics, they were bitter, extremely bitter.

Bitter because everyone involved believed the national future was at stake.

It was no small thing. This was right at the beginning.

It was the country going to fail again with its constitution as it failed with the Arctic

Confederation.

Was it possible that here at the very outset of getting what we wanted, we were going to blow it

and dissolve into quarreling factions? Or worse, if it was going to produce, violate the very

fundamental principles that brought it into being. Was it going

to just produce another monarchical tyranny? Which is what the Jeffersonian faction feared.

Their opponents thought about the Jeffersonians that they were radicals and atheists and

believers in all kinds of wild doctrines that would eliminate America as it

had formerly been known, both sides honestly and sincerely believe the other side was going to

endanger that future.

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