| we are all republicans: "we have called by different names brethren of the same principle. we are all republicans, we are all federalists. if there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." |
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| repealed many federal taxes, pardoned people imprisoned under the unconstitutional alien and sedition acts, doubled the size of the country legally (louisiana purchase), and ensured freedom was the course for the citizenry, but couldn''t keep us out of war (the first barbary war) |
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