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By Dean Harris / The Bulletin
March 23, 2009
America’s political party system was launched in part to represent the differing threats perceived by 19th-century Republicans and Federalists. Republicans feared that Federalists were covert monarchists, plotting to coronate President George Washington or his successor as....