Presidents' Day is a good reminder to treat the presidency with skepticism
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Presidents' Day is a good reminder to treat the presidency with skepticism
Republicans. Some of the founding fathers, including James Madison, were skeptical about the role parties would play, and some of those fears proved to be well-founded.
The republican form of government is now almost universal, existing imperfectly at best, just as the United States fails to be totally faithful to its founders. But just as La Rochefoucauld said that “hypocrisy is a tribute vice pays to virtue,” even amid the universal imperfection most of the world would claim to be a republic, ironically even
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