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Antimasonry

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An`ti`ma´son`ry    (ăn`tĭ`mā´s'n`rŷ)
n.1.Opposition to Freemasonry.
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In the nineteenth century, the determination of white Masons to preserve the secrecy of their organization, coupled with fears of the unknown from without, provoked a specific period of Antimasonry and a corresponding political movement from the 1820s to the 1840s, during which "Antimasons first argued that Masonry's secrecy, exclusivity, and power all made it incompatible with a republican society based on equal rights and popular sovereignty" (Bullock 281).
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In the last part of the book, Bullock discusses how Antimasonry greatly discredited the Craft in America between 1826 and 1840.
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