The+Revolution+of+1800+and+the+Principles+of+Ninety-Eight

LM - As the motion of America's political pendelumn would continue to swing for two centuries to come, the first major swoop of its weight occured in the 1800 election of a Republican ruled government. Whereas the brief reign of the Federalists under the John Adams Administration put American centralization on a road leading away from the nation's republican foundation (or so the Jeffersonians argued), the sweeping election of Republicans in the 1800 election marked another revolution aimed at re-establishing a frugal and non-aristocratic central government.

Jefferson, Madison, Gallatin and other founding fathers had seen the Adams Presidency as a clear demarkation of the rivers of democracy being damed by an ruling elite. It was not necissarily Adams who was agressively working towards this creating this change, but rather the genuine centralizationist beliefs of the Federalist party were what unconciously were setting up a potential for aristocratic take over. Exploiting this explaination in their 1800 campaigns, the Republicans quickly arosed American fear of the central government's aristocratic resemblence. Because their appeals were so widely effective, some historians name this swift and thorough political change the Revolution of 1800. In some terms, it was indeed a revolution. The national debt was quickly lessened, the army and navy swiftly shrunk, and taxes on land decreased. In these measure, the power the Federalists had aggreegated in the government was significantly returned to the people. Jefferson emphasized, though, that any reshuffling of the powers of the federal government must be achieved gradually so radical revamping doesn't result in any gaps caused by impulsive reaction. The changes were not as gradual was what Jefferson predicted, most of which took place between his 1801 innaugoration and his 1802 state of the union.

The timing of the Republican revolution was fortuitous, as their changes to the government had limited effect on US hegemony. Banning asserts is solely the preoccupation of European nations with warefare that allowed the US economy to be without competition and thus the people to be stable enough to embrace the Republican transition. But, the War of 1812 pushed all of the harmonious yeoman farms off the cliff of stability. Because the agricultural economy was slow to change, and the central government was now so passive that immediatly needed action was impossible the War of 1812 began the decline of adherence to staunch Republican ideals. The national debt incurred by the war caused a belief that national debt was possibly more necissary that the Republicans has suggested it was. Also, the relative lack of competativeness that America witnessed after the war caused America to begin to think more globally, and dwell less on the perfection of its green and beautiful farms. The Revolution of 1800 was the first example of how America's democratic government could peacefull undergo a radical restructure.  checked


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