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A Federal Army, Not a Federalist One: Regime Building in the Jeffersonian Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

William D. Adler  and
Jonathan Keller
William D. Adler
Affiliation:
Northeastern Illinois University Graduate Center, City University of New York
Jonathan Keller
Affiliation:
Northeastern Illinois University Graduate Center, City University of New York
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 2014 , pp. 167 - 187
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