“The Times, A Political Portrait” Cartoon

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“The Times, A PoliticalPortrait” Cartoon
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Abstract

This political cartoon depicts one of the most important areas of disagreement in post-revolutionary America. There exists a tendency among many to believe that the Founding Fathers fundamentally agreed about the nature of the new government they had created; in reality, the first decade after the ratification of the Constitution, which was the product of numerous compromises, was one of the most divisive and bitter in the history of American politics. Two groups dominated the political landscape by the 1790s.

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