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Published June 08, 2012, 12:00 AM

Column: Growing independence from both parties

WASHINGTON — In his 2007 book, “The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800,” historian Jay Winik writes that among Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, none “believed in political parties, which they feared would lead to ‘rage,’ ‘dissolution,’ and eventual ‘ruin’ of the republic...”

By: Cal Thomas, Worthington Daily Globe

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