President or King?

How the Republican triumph over the Federalists in the fiercely fought US elections of 1800 was due to skilful appropriation of the American Revolution to partisan ends

George Washington and (below, left to right) Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams. Library of Congress.

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