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5. The authority of the Congressional Caucus, which got its recommendations accepted with this alacrity and
made the "nomination" equivalent to the election,
rested on two facts. The men who composed the
Caucus represented in the capital of the Union the
same social and political element, and in a still higher
degree, which the members of the Legislative Caucuses
represented in the States -- that is, the leadership of the
natural chiefs, whose authority was still admitted and
tacitly acknowledged.

The sources
of the Con-
gressional
Caucus'
authority.

Again, the members of the Caucus represented the
paramount cause which compelled obedience to the
word of command from whatever quarter it proceeded.
Rightly or wrongly, the anti-Federalists believed that the
Republic and liberty were in mortal danger, that they
were menaced by the Federalists, whose political ideal
was the English constitutional monarchy, and who,
having no confidence in the people, in its intelligence
and its virtue, were bent on an authoritarian government.
The Federalist party soon succumbed, but the recollec-
tion of the dangers, real or imaginary, to which liberty
and equality were exposed by it, survived it and for

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Publication Information: Book Title: Democracy and the Party System in the United States. Contributors: M. Ostrogorski - author. Publisher: Macmillan. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1910. Page Number: 9.
    
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