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Week 10

The Early Republic: Conflicts at home and Abroad 1789-1800

Ch.8 p. 199-219

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The Development of the Political Parties

1789-1800

Lesson Overview: Soon after President Washington formed his first cabinet, there was an unforeseen development to which the Framers were very much opposed. This was the formation of political parties. This lesson will explore why the Framers were concerned about political factions, how conflicting points of view led to their development, and the role political parties play in American politics today.

Essential Questions:

1. Is it possible to have a democracy without political parties?

2. What are the functions of political parties today? What part do they play in today’s political system?

3. In what ways, if any, do they serve the common good?

4. How can you be sure the political party of your choice reflects your interests?

5. Have political parties advanced or inhibited representative democracy?

Subsidiary Questions:

1. Who would decide what the “general welfare” was? (Article 1.8)

2. Who would be in the position to decide what is “necessary and proper” (Article 1.8.18)

3. What did Madison say about factions?

4. Why was Jefferson concerned about the interpretation of the Constitution?

5. What conflicting ideas led to the development of political parties?

Student Assignments

Session 1 (research questions and discuss in groups)

Class discussion centered on essential questions 1-5 and subsidiary questions 1-5

Session 2-3 (Hamilton, Jefferson, Washington research)

Mission: You will be assigned to a group that will research the role of Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, or George Washington, President. The group will do appropriate research in preparation for an important Cabinet meeting that the President has urgently called for at the end of the week. The agenda includes discussion of the following critical domestic and foreign policy issues: Your expertise will advise the President.

a). Funding the foreign, national, and state debt

b). Proposed Bank of the United States

c). Excise tariffs

d). Protective tariffs

e). The country's appropriate response to the French Revolution

Mission: Once you have become experts by researching your historical role and understanding your philosophy and position on these national issues, you will organize into your groups with the President and his Cabinet. Washington, Hamilton, and Jefferson (Cabinet Battle #1 and #2) During the cabinet meeting you are responsible to advise the president and present your argument as Hamilton, Jefferson, and Washington, and your stance on each issue (a-e). You will explain the rational consistent with your individuals philosophy of government by using selected quotes and documents. The President will lead the meetings agenda. The President then will debrief his Cabinet members as the debate concludes as to the course of action the Washington’s administration will implement regarding these nationally divisive issues.

Class Session 4 Essential Questions and BOA interactive (series 6)

1. What were the main tenets of Alexander Hamilton's financial program?

3). How did the disagreement between Hamilton and Jefferson lead to the development of political parties.

2). What, in your view, would be the greatest service your own (Hamilton, Jefferson, Washington) philosophy could make to the future welfare of the country?

4. What was the “Revolution of 1800,” and in what way was it a revolution?

The Spectrum of Disagreement

At the rear entrance of Jefferson’s imposing Virginia home, Monticello, busts of Hamilton and Jefferson stood opposite each other. The guide used to tell tourists that Jefferson placed them there because the two men had opposed each other in life, and they might as well stand opposite each other in death. In the following quotations, what do they agree on, what are their most fundamental disagreements, and how fair are they in assessing each other?

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|Hamilton |Jefferson |

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|A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. |No man is more ardently intent to see the public debt soon and sacredly paid|

|(1781) |off than I am. This exactly marks the difference between Colonel Hamilton’s |

| |views and mine, that I would wish the debt paid tomorrow, he wishes it never|

|If all the public creditors receive their dues from one source… their |to be paid, but always to be a thing wherewith to corrupt and manage the |

|interest will be the same. And having the same interests, they will unity in|legislature. (1792) |

|support of the fiscal arrangements of the government. (1791) | |

| |Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without |

|Real liberty in neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but|newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment|

|in moderate governments. (1787) |to prefer the latter. (1787) |

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|Beware, my dear sir, of magnifying a riot into an insurrection, by employing|A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the |

|in the first instance an inadequate force. Tis better far to err on the |political word as storms in the physical… It is the medicine necessary for |

|other side. Whenever government appears in arms, it ought to appear like |the sound health of government. (1786) |

|Hercules, and inspire respect by display of strength. (1799) | |

| |It is her (England’s) government which is so corrupt, and which has |

|I believe the British government forms the best model the world ever |destroyed the nation-it was certainly the most corrupt and unprincipled |

|produced, and such has been its progress in the minds of many that this |government on earth. (1810) |

|truth gradually gains ground. (1787) | |

| |I am not a friend to energetic government. It is always oppressive. It |

|A firm union will be of the utmost moment to the peace and liberty of the |places the governors indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the |

|states, as a barrier against domestic faction and insurrection. (1787) |people. (1787) |

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|A state government will ever be the rival power of the general government. |If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be |

|(1787) |one of the most extensive corruptions. (1822) |

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| |Our country is to large to have all of its affairs directed by a single |

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|Excise Tariffs | | |

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|Protective Tariff | | |

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Hamilton the Musical

“Alexander Hamilton”

“Aaron Burr, Sir”

“My Shot”

“What Did I Miss”

“Cabinet Battle #1 and 2”

“Washington on Your Side”

“The Adams Administration”

“The Election of 1800”

“The World was Wide Enough”

“Who Lives Who Dies”

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