Our modern-day political categories of liberal versus conservative do not translate neatly in the world of the American founding, but we are still living within an argumentative framework the founders established over the proper role of government. The American Dialogue is an ongoing conversation between the two sides in that argument. The passionate and at times vitriolic debate in the 1790s between Federalists and Republicans exposed the deep disagreements between the two sides of the revolutionary generation. Washington, Adams, Hamilton, and John Marshall led the Federalist pro-government
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