政治史学家研究了投票记录、报纸和政治家著作等资料来源，重点研究了19世纪40年代一个新的“美国政治国家”的出现。

Political historians, examining sources such as voting records, newspapers, and politicians' writings, focus on the emergence in the 1840s of a new "American political nation".

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These political clubs or parties use their influence to incense the populous using their power to whip up dangerous passions that tend to make American politicians closer to demagogues than to statesmen.

用他们的权力激怒群众,用他们的权力激起危险的热情,致使美国政治家,趋近于蛊惑民心的政客,而非政治家。

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