The American Revolution of 1800Knopf, 1974 - 468 páginas In this brilliant historical classic, Dan Sisson argues that Thomas Jefferson thought democratic revolutions would be necessary from time to time to break the grip of autocratic factions on the government. That is how Jefferson saw the election of 1800—and the lessons for today couldn’t be more obvious. Most historians celebrate Jefferson’s victory over Adams in 1800 as the beginning of the two-party system, but Jefferson would have been horrified by this interpretation. Drawing on the understanding of faction, revolution, and conspiracy reflected in the writings of the Founders, Sisson makes it clear that they, like Jefferson, envisioned essentially a nonparty state. Jefferson believed his election was a peaceful revolution by the American people overturning an elitist faction that was stamping out cherished constitutional rights and trying to transform our young democracy into an authoritarian state. It was a transfer of power back to the people, not a change of parties. Sisson maintains Jefferson would regard our current two-party system as a repudiation of his theory of revolution and his earnest desire that the people as a whole, not any faction or clique, would triumph in government. The ideals of the American Revolution were in danger until this “Revolution of 1800,” to which we owe the preservation of many of our key rights. |
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... referred to zeal for the public , which flows in fact from AVARICE , SELF - INTEREST , RESENTMENT and other private views.14 Lord Viscount Bolingbroke , who had spent most of his political life opposing the administration of Robert ...
... referred to zeal for the public , which flows in fact from AVARICE , SELF - INTEREST , RESENTMENT and other private views.14 Lord Viscount Bolingbroke , who had spent most of his political life opposing the administration of Robert ...
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... referred to in terms of the physical universe . The metaphors of the earth revolving around the sun , the full circle , and completion of a cycle were used by every writer to describe the nature of political revolu- tions . After all ...
... referred to in terms of the physical universe . The metaphors of the earth revolving around the sun , the full circle , and completion of a cycle were used by every writer to describe the nature of political revolu- tions . After all ...
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... referred to " revolutionized " as " changing the form and principles of a constitution " ; and " revolutionize " as " effect [ ing ] an entire change of principles in . . . " 5 62 · • by the newspapers Italy Rufus King observed that ...
... referred to " revolutionized " as " changing the form and principles of a constitution " ; and " revolutionize " as " effect [ ing ] an entire change of principles in . . . " 5 62 · • by the newspapers Italy Rufus King observed that ...
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A Note on the Historians | 3 |
The Idea of a NonParty State | 23 |
The Idea of Revolution | 71 |
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