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England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry 1598
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Democracy in the United States, character of.
by courtesy of Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons.
Prof. Woodrow Wilson of Princeton University (Professor of Jurisprudence and Politics), the wellknown author, critic, and lecturer, writes as follows:
Everything apprises us of the fact that we are not the same nation now that we were when the government was formed.
In looking back to that time, the impression is inevitable that we started with sundry wrong ideas about ourselves.
We deemed ourselves rank democrats, whereas we were in fact only progressive Englishmen.
Turn the leaves of that sage manual of constitutional interpretation and advocacy, the Federalist, and note the perverse tendency of its writers to refer to Greece and Rome for precedents—that Greece and Rome which haunted all our earlier and even some of our more mature years.
Recall, too, that familiar story of Daniel Webster which tells of his coming home exhausted from an interview with the first President-e
Andrew Jackson (search for this): entry 1598
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