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Political History of the United States WHIG PARTY (IN
—Notwithstanding this surface unity, there had long been a
departure from the original democratic canons, and a break in
the dominant party, which first becomes plainly visible after
the war of 1812. The idea that the people were to impose their
notions of public policy upon their rulers, and not altogether
to receive them from their rulers, which the federalists had
always detested at heart, had now been accepted by all
politicians; but, working under this limitation, a strong
section of the dominant party now aimed at obtaining, by
Jefferson's methods, objects entirely foreign to Jefferson's
programme. This was particularly the case in the northern
states, where commerce, banking, and the other interests, not
bounded by state lines, on which Hamilton had depended for the
building up of nationality, were now supplemented by another,
manufactures, non-existent in Hamilton's time. (See —It was not