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John Sharp Williams:Thomas Jefferson; His Permanent Influence On American Institutions - new book
ISBN: 9780217924726
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...army would have been put on foot, with Hamilton at the head of it, and probably the crisis might have happened I Meanwhile, what John Randolph called the American reign of terror was arousing more and more indignation, and the project of raising an army, when taken in connection with the alien and sedition laws, was arousing fears. The Republicans knew that the counter-revolutionary alarm about a French invasion was manufactured to furnish a reason for raising an army, and that the army might be used, in a way dangerous, at any rate, to the Republicans--if not to the Republic. The officering of the army did not decrease this excitement. It was known that Washington could be only nominal chief, if active operations in the field had to take place; that Hamilton would be the real chief in command, and that his assistant officers--every one of them--were Federalists. Free speech and free printing had been already attacked, judges on the federal bench were already making political harangues against democracy to grand juries and petty juries, so that you may imagine the situation. None of this distrust and anxiety was lessened by the fact that Hamilton was not a popular man--did not, in fact, dare to run for an elective office--was generally beaten in his own State, and, therefore, was popularly supposed to be willing to make an attack upon the elective system. The country was at white heat. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, as State protests, were flung into the ring. The repetition in them of the thoughts of the Declaration of Independence had an admonitory, if not an ominous sound. That Hamilton contemplated the use of force is inferrible at least from his letter of advice to... John Sharp Williams, Books, Biography and Memoir, Thomas Jefferson; His Permanent Influence On American Institutions Books>Biography and Memoir This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Columbia University Press in 1913 in 360 pages; Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State; History / United States / General; History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); Political Science / General;<
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John Sharp Williams:
Thomas Jefferson, His Permanent Influence on American Institutions (1913)
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III JEFFERSON THE DEMOCRATIZER OF STATE INSTITUTIONS 1. A STATE MADE OVEE I Doubt if there is anything sweeter in Mr. Jefferson's life than what he says in his Autobiography in the following modest way: ? "I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is better for my having lived at all. I do not know that it is; I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others, some of them, perhaps, a little better." Then there follows a reference to four great measures ? three of which were afterwards inscribed on his tomb, the other being the abolition of primogeniture and entail. Note that the things he took most pride in were all, save one ?jhg-authorshipof the Declaration? state, not federal,ji|ts. Note the same fact in the inscription chosen by him for his tomb: "Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Freedom of Religion and Father of the University of Virginia." It has been a sort of fashion to speak of Thomas Jefferson as a "theorist," "doctrinaire," and all that. Very few people know how great he was as a constructive statesman ? a legislator. In the first place, Mr. Jefferson was an excellent lawyer ? not a great advocate, because he was never an orator, nor even a very great debater. His vocal defects, as noted elsewhere, prevented this. He was only thirty-three, when he resigned from Congress and went back to Virginia, there to begin his wonderful work of political and social and industrial reconstruction. His reason for it is best given in his own language: ? "When I left Congress in 1776, it was in the persuasion that our whole code must be revised, adapted to our republican form of government, and, now that we had no negations of councils, governors and ki... , libri, Kartoniert / Broschiert<
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