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It would be very pleasant on such an occasion as this to say that the American city has been and is a unique and unqualified success—and to be able to show that its successes all derive from adherence to principles established and given institutional form in the American Revolution, whose bicentennial we are here to commemorate.
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Banfield, E.C. (1985). The City and the Revolutionary Tradition. In: Here the People Rule. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2481-2_12
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