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Perhaps [[John L. O'Sullivan]] captured the purpose of the Young America Movement in an 1837 editorial for the ''[[The United States Magazine and Democratic Review|Democratic Review]]'':
Perhaps [[John L. O'Sullivan]] captured the purpose of the Young America Movement in an 1837 editorial for the ''[[The United States Magazine and Democratic Review|Democratic Review]]'':
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{{bquote|All history is to be re-written; political science and the whole scope of all moral truth have to be considered and illustrated in the light of the democratic principle. All old subjects of thought and all new questions arising, connected more or less directly with human existence, have to be taken up again and re-examined.Edward Widmer, ''Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 3.}}
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{{bquote|All history is to be re-written; political science and the whole scope of all moral truth have to be considered and illustrated in the light of the democratic principle. All old subjects of thought and all new questions arising, connected more or less directly with human [[existence]], have to be taken up again and re-examined.Edward Widmer, ''Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 3.}}

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