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Disillusioned Revolutionaries: Many Founders Died in Despair About the American Experiment

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Disillusioned Revolutionaries: Many Founders Died in Despair About the American Experiment
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In a special America 250 issue, Reason takes a look back at our country's founding people and ideas. Read more here. Joanna Andreasson As a big, even-numbered anniversary of the Declaration of Independence rumbled into view, an inner-circle Founding Father gazed upon the man claiming to be his worthy successor and shuddered with revulsion. "I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing Gen. [Andrew] Jackson President," Thomas Jefferson told Daniel Webster in 1824. "He is one of the most unfit me

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