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enemyship
noun
The state or condition of being an enemy or enemies; enmity.
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Engels explains that "enemyship" became a recurring and effective rhetorical strategy for containing and disciplining democracy in the early United States.
Engels's Enemyship and Mercieca's Founding Fictions employ communication theory to describe how early national politicians sought to build consensus and stifle dissent at a time when the powers and limits of citizenship were very much in flux.
Engels, however, argues that enemyship never perfectly constrains its audience, and Paine's subsequent attack on Quakers and other moderates demonstrates how the rhetorical strategy often failed to unite its audience fully.
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