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...election was decided in the House of Representatives, where the Founding Fathers' aristocratic clique cut a deal that denied him the White House. When he finally triumphed four years later, the Washington "dynasty" lost its power to direct the presidency to one of its own. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe and John Quincy Adams were the forerunners of today's professional politicians. They made their careers in national affairs and apprenticed for the top spot by serving in successive Cabinets. Even then, today's complaint was fashionable. The ruling elite saw office as an end in itself...
...history, but it is a movement through a larger history as well. The material for a few of his poems are salve narrative and documents; the introductory poem of his thesis is an advertisement for two lost slaves, titled "Reward," and the closing poem is a "Letter to President Jefferson, Care of Our Forefathers." In the final poem he writes...
...away with it." She vows to tell the children she takes care of, "You are black; the policeman is an enemy. When you see the police officer, go away because no matter what you do you are guilty." Gwendolyn Young, executive director of the Louisville and Jefferson County Human Relations Commission in Kentucky, declared to a hundred people at a protest rally in Louisville that "in America black life is meaningless and black rights do not exist." To many blacks, the fact that the not-guilty verdicts were handed down by a jury that included no blacks (though...
...current situation, however, contains market distortions painfully obvious to any defender of free enterprise. Moreover, one must recall Thomas Jefferson's dictum: "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty...
Hagley said he plans to continue doing hisresearch at Jefferson despite Saturday night'sincident