HIST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Democratic-Republican Party, Republicanism In The United States, Wage War
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Constitution merely a compact and the states able to interpret and nullify federal law: this was vindictive provincialism, national government envy, not trust this is the ideal that represents the interests of the provinces and the agriculture. Republican simplicity: every gesture of the jeffersonian party during its early days in power was in keeping with its professed principles of government. It had rejected all of the pomp and ceremony, designed to give the nation"s chief executive weight and prestige as symbols of democracy and high prerogative: accordingly, the inauguration of jefferson on 4 march 1801, the first in. Washington"s new capital, was characterized by intense simplicity. In a few short years ahead, it was their destiny to double the country"s territory, making a continental republic inevitable; to grant the. Constitution a generous interpretation that surprised many a federalist; to wage war on behalf of american trade; to restore the despised bank of the.
