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Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930

"The Promise of American Life"


Crevecoeur, Hector St. John de, quoted, 8-9.
Criminal justice,
failure of American, 318;
reform of, by states, 344-345.
Criminals,
treatment of, by states, 345-346.
Critics and criticism in America, 450-451;
broadening of the work of, 451-452.
Crazier, John B., quoted, 15-16.
Cuba,
relations between United States and, 303, 308.
Cumberland Road, the, 67.

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Debt, national,
Hamilton's belief in good effects of, 40-41.
Democracy,
as represented by Republicans at close of Revolution, 28-29, 30-31;
Federalists' antagonism to, 32-33;
misfortune of founding national government on distrust of, 33-34;
misunderstanding of, as an ideal, in 1786, 34;
Hamilton's distrust of, 41;
Jefferson the leader of, against Hamilton and his policies, 42-43;
Jefferson's view of, as extreme individualism, 43;
real policy of Jeffersonian, as revealed upon triumph of his party,
46-49;
Jeffersonian, becomes reconciled with Federalism, 46-47;
fifty-year sway of Jeffersonian tradition, 48;
questionable results of triumph of Jeffersonian, 50-51;
existence of a genuine American, proved by War of 1812, 54-55
(_see_ Democracy, Jacksonian);
slavery as an institution of, 80 ff.


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