This crisis mentality is a vital component of the process of political change. There were no assurances, no guarantees of success, and a constant fear that the entire structure would come crashing to ruin. Imposing patterns on the period in hindsight, we often forget that this was a world of chance and circumstance, where voting patterns and probabilities that seem obvious to us were obscured in a cloud of uncertainties and fears.
Affairs of Honor
Joanne B. Freeman
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