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Interesting. If studying the history of US governance, its, in my opinion, to end the founding period with Jackson presidency and his successor Jacksonians, because the in some ways were strong centralizers (the nullification crises, etc.) but in other ways asserted and installed an ideological and accompanying governance framework that valued BOTH political AND economic federalism (the decentralization of banking and finance, etc.). This framework actually held until the advent of the so called Neoliberal Era, in fact, most of the biggest economic changes done in the 1970s and 1980s were not the undoing of the New Deal stuff but rather the undoing of the then ~140 year old Jacksonian stuff

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