Herbert Croly's promise of American life reflected a new means of democracy. ... Hamilton also believed in a strong central government. ... He then describes how Alexander Hamilton was for a centralized government while Thomas Jefferson was an advocate for a government that would intervene, not to destroy individualism, but to protect it. ... The response was to implement a Hamilton and Jacksonian view of centralized government but will guard a new set of individual rights. ... Rights according to pragmatists are just wagers that we have made with our fellow citizens so we can live the li...

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Thoreau and Emerson saw a very different result in the burgeoning industrial society that Alexander Hamilton saw fifty years before them. Where Hamilton saw industry and progress, Thoreau only saw loss as improvements saw land losing much of its natural and, in his view, preferable state. ... He compares life with this wildness, and as such, parallels to the cornering and fencing off of life sounds as if she could have been referencing Teddy Roosevelt's in yet another American era fifty years after Thoreau's death. ... His descriptions of slave life and the views of others who were s...

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But I lived most of my life in Marceline, Missouri. ... The way I choose how to live my life is my decision and nobody else's. ... If Americans lost their rights that means that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and, of course, Benjamin Franklin wasted their time and that's not fair to me or my fellow Americans. ... I don't know about the rest of America but I would like to live my life while I can. ... But overall McCarthyism was terrible and my life is better without it....

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Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores (463).? ... Natty Bumpo was Cooper's vision of a man who had spent his life embracing his individuality and living by his own creed of morality, a theme that would continue to be reflected in the literature of this new nation. ... consisting of the three politicians: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. ... The young country and its people were struggling with many issues during its ...

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In the book The Epic of America written by James Truslow Adams in 1931 stated that The American Dream was one many immigrants have of a land in which life should be better for each person based on their ability and their achievements. One of the amazing facts of being an American is that no person should be denied the right to own land or property , because as stated in The Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal with certain rights like life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Being an American, also means you have an equal chance at life, no matter the competitors arou...

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