Our system, started as a failed experiment, then turned to shit by 1830, with the rise in Jacksonian voter turnout. Clark, p 24, Tuchman, Proud Tower.
Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower, said that colonial 'elites', originally intended, under the Constitution, to govern, had already abandoned direct personal involvement in government as politicians by 1830, around the time of the accession of Jackson. Proud Tower
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