... war officer, he avoided involvement in Virginia politics. Preferring to concentrate on restoring Mount Vernon, he added a greenhouse, a mill, an icehouse, and horses, investigated the development of Potomac River navigation, and undertook various commercial ventures, traveled west to examine his land holdings near the Ohio River. His dairy notes steady stream of visitors, native and foreign; Mount Vernon, like ... and Pinckney's Treaty (1795) with Spain had enlarged U. s. territory and removed serious diplomatic difficulties. In spite of the animosities and conflicting opinions between ...

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... to form into factions or parties, it may just be inevitable that politics are a major player in a democratic system from the local level up and through the national level. Madison writes in The Federalist 10 Papers, "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to ... insignificant compared with the extravagance, corruption, and mismanagement which mark the administrations of most of the great cities. In New York they have revealed themselves on the largest scale."(Bryce 608) Bryce was a...

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