John Dewey: “Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian political ideas are not merely theories…”

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Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian political ideas are not merely theories dwelling in the human mind remote from facts of American political behavior.

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John Dewey

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Here, Dewey argues that political ideas are deeply connected to real-world American political behavior.

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John Dewey: “Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian political ideas are not merely theories dwelling in the human mind remote from facts of…”