In the 1800’s, Thomas Jefferson campaigned on the ethics of the Republican belief of a weak central government, and to ensure these beliefs are kept one must rely on the principles of lower taxes, justice, and a lack of strongly enforced governmental restrictions. However, Thomas Jefferson failed to follow the very principles he promised to emanate as he created a government trading restriction known as the Embargo Acts, increased taxes due to the Louisiana Purchase, and followed John Adams ideology in the Alien and Sedition act and tried to have Samuel Chase impeached and removed from office on false charges due to his anti-Jefferson mindset. Thus, Thomas Jefferson failed to keep the philosophy of the Republican party and contradicted his …show more content…
To enforce the Embargo Act, Jefferson sent secret agents aboard ships to prevent any black market trading amongst the people. This undermined the people’s rights and took away the livelihood and freedom of many Americans, which is represented in the image in Document D. In Document B, Jefferson says, “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.”, Jefferson contradicts his Inaugural Address in Document B when he created the Embargo Act. The Embargo Act, keeping neutrality, ruined the nation’s economy and affected the majority of the US as a whole. Not only did Jefferson disrupt the minority through the use of secret agents hidden aboard ships for citizen surveillance, but he also caused major trouble for the American Economy. According to Document F, just before the Embargo Act was created, a ship by the name of the U. S. S. Chesapeake was …show more content…
However, the Louisiana Purchase created an additional 15 million dollars to the US National Debt, and this debt was one that the United States could not afford. To fix the problem of the National Debt, Jefferson, who had previously said in Document C that “The incorporation of a bank, and the powers assumed by this bill, have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States, by the Constitution”, used Alexander Hamilton’s idea of using the National Bank to pay of the debt. Jefferson, going against the very opinion he stated of the National Bank not being Constitutional, used the National Bank to pay off most of the debt, which went against Republican belief on the lessening of taxes the people and also the prevention of a creation of a National Bank. In Document J, Jefferson asks permission from congress to send an expedition group to explore the Louisiana territory that he bought extra-constitutionally. Congress now had no choice but to deal with a matter that they had no decision in prior to it. Jefferson was now able to get Congress’s approval of the Louisiana Purchase, at least through the eyes of the people.
Jefferson wanted to stop the shipment of goods, war materials and other things during the time of Napoleonic Wars. Jefferson also hoped that the Embargo act would orevent any possible wars between the United States and other allied countries. The mbargo act was passed in the month of December in 1807 and it did, in fact, prevent all the possible wars. Others thought it was a father of the War
When purchasing the Louisiana Territory, President Jefferson faced the risk of being prosecuted for violation of the Constitution, which was different from Hamilton’s creation of a national bank because it was illegal. To begin, after the French acquired the Louisiana Territory 1802, Jefferson worried that the French would no longer allow American farmers passage on the Mississippi River or the right to trade at New Orleans, so he sent Robert Livingston to France to negotiate to purchase New Orleans. When Livingston arrived, he was surprised by France’s offer to sell the US the entire Louisiana Territory for just 15 million dollars. Livingston knew he was not authorized to purchase the territory but he also knew that if he waited to ask Congress, the deal might be gone already, so he purchased the territory.
As a leader of the party, Thomas Jefferson upheld general Democratic-Republican values for a majority of his presidency. After being elected in 1800, Jefferson stated, in a letter to one of his future cabinet members, “The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best that the states are independent as to everything within themselves” (Doc A). Jefferson stated his overall views as traditionally being in favor of state’s independence. He further reinforces his traditional Republican beliefs by expressing that the government should not be involved with religious affairs.
Marbury v. Madison In the final days of his presidency, John Adams approved a law for 16 new federal judges, called the Judiciary Act of 1801. Thomas Jefferson did not agree with these last minute appointments. Secretary of State James Madison did not deliver the appointment notices to the judges. William Marbury, one of the new judges, fought back against losing his new job.
He petitioned for all children, male and female to have three years of learing arithmetics, writing, reading, and history. Petitioning for this bill took great courage, especially because the government had been at its riches point. The United States doubled in 1803 after Jefferson purchased Louisiana territory from France for about 15 million dollars. Having just purchased this new land, Jefferson appointed his personal secretary Meriwether Lewis, who then enlisted William Clark to go scope out the terrain of the territory.
Because, this purchase from France helped to magnify the nation by essentially doubling the size of it. However, Jefferson faced a serious problem against his own moral principal pertaining to the Louisiana Purchase because as someone who highly opposed of the federal government using their power over the common man by spending the nation’s money. Because the purchase of property such as land from a foreign government was not within the constitution, and to Jefferson the federal government’s rights were based on the words written within the constitution. Through this purchase he would be using his own presidency power going against the limits of what the federal governments rights according to the Constitution. Which to Jefferson was unconstitutional, his justification towards his decision to draft a treaty for the purchase against his moral principal was the reality that if not purchased then and there.
There he supported France in its war with Britain, and was conservative, knowing that we should maintain neutrality in conflict. Moving onto his presidency, in 1803, Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase. Effectively doubling the size of America, Jefferson purchased over 8,000 square miles of Louisiana Territory from France for an estimated $15 million. What a deal! Having increased the United States’s size, he ventured in discovering the new part of the country with the rest of the continent, too.
Jefferson knew it was a good buy, in contrary, he would have to break his anti-alliances policy in order to defeat Napoleon and his army. He proposed to make an alliance with Britain against France to secure New Orleans. Once Louisiana was ceded by the United States by signing three treaties for $15 million, Thomas Jefferson the strict constructionist was conflicted. He did not want to break the constitution where it says the president is authorized to obtain treaties with a large expanse into the union. The expanse was filled with diverse inhabitants, he ensured that American experiment in democracy would be beneficial.
Jefferson had destroyed his country; it certainly seemed so. The Embargo Act was repealed by Congress in 1809, relieving his people from the time of difficulty he
Asia Pratka The first President of the United States, George Washington, and the first Congress set out to create a new banking system for the United States to help its taxing and spending powers become more fluid. Could the federal government create a National Banking system? Twenty-eight years later, McCulloch v. Maryland established the constitutionality of the necessary and proper clause through the Supreme Court. However, was the Supreme Court the right venue to decide if the necessary and proper clause instituted by Congress is constitutionally liberal or expressed, or should "We the People" have the decision?
When it comes to Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton the main difference between the two was their political party. The basis of each of their political parties set the boundaries for their beliefs and their views as politicians. Both men were founding fathers of our country, and made a huge impact on history as we know it. Without these men, our country's government might not be what it is today. One of the only similarities of Jefferson and Hamilton was their want to diminish national debt.
Thomas Jefferson during the 1790’s-1800’s while working with federalists Alexander Hamilton, his viewpoints were different. During the 1790’s Jefferson was known to be in the democratic-republican party where he progresses an ideal structure of equivalencies between money and weight standards with the American/Spanish currency. Jefferson took charge of the republicans after a conflict created two parties, republican-democratic and the federalist, who empathized with the revolutionary cause in France. While attacking the federalist policies, Jefferson opposed a strong centralized government and granted the rights of states. While Jefferson was in presidency, he cut down on the Army and Navy expenditures, cut the U.S. budget, eliminated the tax
In the 1800’s Thomas Jefferson campaigned on the ethics of Republican belief of a weak central government, and to ensure these beliefs are kept one must rely on the principles of lower taxes, justice, and a lack of governmental restrictions. However, Thomas Jefferson failed to follow the very principles he promised to emanate as he created a government trading restriction known as the Embargo Acts, increased taxes due to the Louisiana Purchase, and followed John Adams ideology in the Alien and Sedition act and tried to have Samuel Chase removed from office on false charges. Thus, Thomas Jefferson failed to keep the philosophy of the Republican party and contradicted his campaign principles through the Embargo Acts, the Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson’s dilemma in the Louisiana Purchase In April of 1803 Thomas Jefferson was faced with many moral dilemmas in the process of buying the Louisiana territory. Though the price for the territory was beyond generous, Jefferson felt that by purchasing the territory he would be going against his beliefs that the constitution should be followed word for word. The constitution said nothing of the president having the power to purchase land from another government, or to use money of the states for the same purpose (“the moral dilemma”). Another problem was once the land was purchased, there was a fear that it could have been a waste since they had no way to know the layout of the land, and what it would be useful for.
Hamilton 's monetary course of action for the nation included working up a national bank like that in England to keep up open credit; cementing the states ' commitments under the focal government; and initiating guarded tolls and government enrichments to empower American makes. These measures fortified the administration 's vitality to the hindrance of the states. Jefferson and his political accomplices limited these progressions. Francophile Jefferson expected that the Bank of the United States addressed an inordinate measure of English effect, and he battled that the Constitution did not give Congress the capacity to set up a bank. He didn 't assume that propelling produces was as basic as supporting the authoritatively settled agrarian base.