They proved unequal to the task, and it fell to a younger generation led by Henry Clay and his contemporaries to sweep Federalist and Jeffersonian republican alike, with their French and British politics, out of existence.
Lodge notes the role of a younger generation in moving beyond the politics of the Federalists and Jeffersonians.
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