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The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History ... and the University of North Carolina Press)

by Saul T. Cornell

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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

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America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By

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Return to Blackcreek (Blackcreek #3.5) by Riley Hart

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Wanted to run his fingers through Braden’s soft hair because everything was easier when he had Braden in his arms. He made life seem simple, yet so much more at the same time.

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“It reminded me of something that James Madison said in 1788: “Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
― Ronald Reagan, An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography

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“Liberty has never come from government,” Woodrow Wilson, one of FDR’s predecessors and another Democrat, said. “The history of liberty is the history of limitation of government’s power, not the increase of it.”
― Ronald Reagan, An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography

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“Deficits, as I’ve often said, aren’t caused by too little taxing, they are caused by too much spending. Presidents don’t create deficits, Congress does. Presidents can’t appropriate a dollar of taxpayers’ money; only congressmen can—and Congress is susceptible to all sorts of influences that have nothing to do with good government.”
― Ronald Reagan, An American Life: The Autobiography

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“Here’s my formula: I usually start with a joke or story to catch the audience’s attention; then I tell them what I am going to tell them, I tell them, and then I tell them what I just told them.”
― Ronald Reagan, An American Life: The Autobiography

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“I have often wondered about a paradox in American government: Every four years, voters elect a president and in California a governor, the only officeholders elected by all the people; then, the same people in their individual districts turn around and elect a legislature and congress that is often controlled by the opposing party, enabling it to prevent the president or governor from carrying out the things they elected him or her to do.”
― Ronald Reagan, An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography

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