party nearly always controlled the State legisla- ture. On the other hand, the history of the Pennsylvania Federalists was one of continued failure. However, several Pennsylvania counties resisted this trend—Adams, Lancaster and Delaware—and resolutely held aloft the torch of Federalism against the

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