| The Revolution of 1800
Larson, Edward J.
American History, December 2007, v42, #5, pp26-33
An excerpt from "A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign": Less than 20 years after the last guns of the War of Independence fell silent and 12 years since the adoption of the Constitution, the young American republic found itself in the midst of a political crisis that threatened to lead to armed rebellion and disunion. An extraordinary cascade of events forced the nation's elected leaders to choose between pursuing their partisan goals and buttressing constitutional foundations. While the union of the Founders survived, their vision of a nonpartisan polity was swept away, replaced with a party system very familiar to us 207 years later." Edward J.Larson is the author of seven books and the recipient of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in history for "Summer for the Gods."
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