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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 23 > Senators don’t have a divine right to keep their seats till death

Senators don’t have a divine right to keep their seats till death

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....

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