Objective: Explain the causes and effects of policy debates in the early republic.
Class Notes for the Day:
|
|
|
Class Starter: Come up with a team name for a contest!
Recap: Explain the context in which the republic developed from 1800-1848.
Ch. 11 Outline
- To what extent did regional interests trump national concerns when it came to politics and the economy?
- What were the effects of the Louisiana Purchase?
Word of the Day
belligerent/bellicose
- Define it
- Give an example
- Who do you know that has a propensity for bellicosity?
- How did George Washington want America to deal with belligerent nations?
Jefferson's Inaugural Address
Friends and fellow citizens:
During the contest of opinion through which we have passed the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely and to speak and to write what they think; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the Constitution, all will, of course, arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions....
What is the first sentence of the address referring to?
What does Jefferson warn against in the first part of his inaugural address?
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government can not be strong, that this Government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern. Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe....
What is the purpose of Jefferson’s inaugural address? Why is this necessary at the time? What line best represents his purpose?
What do you think is Jefferson’s view of man? How do you know?
What principles will shape Jefferson's presidency?
Get HIPP.
During the contest of opinion through which we have passed the animation of discussions and of exertions has sometimes worn an aspect which might impose on strangers unused to think freely and to speak and to write what they think; but this being now decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the Constitution, all will, of course, arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite in common efforts for the common good. All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions....
What is the first sentence of the address referring to?
What does Jefferson warn against in the first part of his inaugural address?
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government can not be strong, that this Government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern. Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe....
What is the purpose of Jefferson’s inaugural address? Why is this necessary at the time? What line best represents his purpose?
What do you think is Jefferson’s view of man? How do you know?
What principles will shape Jefferson's presidency?
Get HIPP.
Lecture: The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson
Marshall Court
Supreme Court decisions in the early 19th century established the primacy of the judiciary in determining the meaning of the Constitution and asserted that federal laws took precedence over state laws. Chief Justice John Marshall believed that a strong central government best served the nation's interests.
Let's examine some landmark cases to see how power shifts.
1A 3A 3B
Let's examine some landmark cases to see how power shifts.
1A 3A 3B
Closer: Explain the causes and effects of policy debates in the early republic.
On Deck
Next Topic: Politics and Regional Interests
DBQ next class (periods 1-3)
DBQ next class (periods 1-3)