[rollo tomasi]

Rosen needs to take some more history classes and read archival enumerations by those he is talking about.

"The first parties played an unexpected cooling function, uniting diverse economic and regional interests through shared constitutional visions."

The Federalists and Democratic-Republicans were divided, yes, but did not share "constitutional visions". Not sharing "constitutional visions" was the biggest reason why they were divided. And guess what, Madison told the Federalists bye-bye, because he began to understand where the Anti-Federalists were coming from and solidified his belief when Judicial review was rammed down the Constitutional throat with Marbury vs. "Himself".

[Jacquerie]

What was the alternative?