In this rise of political parties the philosophy of the Constitution was negatived; for our fundamental law, unlike those of other modern democracies, was built on the non-party theory and did not contemplate party government.
Beveridge reflects on how the rise of political parties contradicted the non-party theory of the Constitution.
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My God! what a situation has our country reached.
Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.
Our children see this and learn to imitate it....
The existing American system was a very masterpiece of weakness.
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