...wholesome plans digested by common counsels, and modified by mutual interests. However combinations or associations of the above description may now and...engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion. —George Washington, in his farewell address, September 17,1796 We are not afraid to entrust the American...

...Occasionally, Hamiltonian thunder rumbled through the prose, as in the ranting line that factions can become "potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious,...the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government."23 In general, however, their two voices blended admirably together. The result was a literary...

...a small but artful and enterprising minority of the Community." He went further. He branded parties "potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and...to usurp for themselves the reins of Government." And, as if taking Republicans to task for their pro-French, antiEnglish stance, he warned against "excessive...

...wholesome plans digested by common councils and modified by mutual interests. However combinations or Associations of the above description may now and...engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. Towards the preservation of your Government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite,...

...in his Farewell Address when he charged that "[parties] may now and then answer popular ends, [but] they are likely in the course of time and things,...engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion" and called parties the "worst enemy" of popular government. It was Washington, in the early days of...

...wholesome plans digested by common councils and modified by mutual interests. However combinations or associations of the above description may now and...to usurp for themselves the reins of government." 92 Americans, be they Supreme Court justices, talk-show hosts, or book authors, tend to react selectively...

...will of the Nation, the will of a party - often a small but artful and enterprising minority....They are likely, in the course of time and things, to become...to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for the themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them...

...often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the Community." They are likely, he declared, "in the course of time and things, to become potent...the very engines which have lifted them to unjust domination" (Washington 1796). During the last quarter of the eighteenth century, most states outside...

...However combination or association of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, that are likely, in the course of time and things, to become...be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterward the very engines that have lifted...

...Describing parties as "often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community," he warned that "they are likely, in the course of time and things,...will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, & to usurp for themselves the reins of Government." This sweeping condemnation reflected a conservative...