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Capitalism and a New Social Order - The Republican Vision of the 1790s (Paperback)
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Capitalism and a New Social Order - The Republican Vision of the 1790s (Paperback)
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Examines the vision of Jeffersonian Republicans and their impact on
early American politics In 1800 the Jeffersonian Republicans,
decisive victors over what they considered elitist Federalism,
seized the potential for change in the new American nation. They
infused in it their vision of a society of economically
progressive, politically equal, and socially liberated individuals.
This book examines the fusion of ideas and circumstances which made
possible this triumph of America's first popular political
movement. When the Federalists convened in New York to form the
"more perfect union" promised by the new United Sates Constitution,
they expected to build a strong central government led by the
revolutionary members of the old colonial elite. This expectation
was dashed by the emergence of a vigorous opposition led by Thomas
Jefferson but manned by a new generation of popular politicians:
interlopers, emigres, polemicists-what the Federalists called the
"mushroom candidates." They turned the 1790s into an age of passion
by raising basic questions about the characters of the American
experiment in government. When the Federalists defenders of
traditional European notions of order and authority came under
attack, they sought to discredit the radical beliefs of the
Jeffersonians. Although the ideas that fueled the Jeffersonian
opposition came from several strains of liberal and libertarian
thought, it was the specific prospect of an expanding commercial
agriculture that gave substance to their conviction that Americans
might divorce themselves from the precepts of the past. Thus,
capitalism figured prominently in the Jeffersonian social vision.
Aroused by the Federalists' efforts to bind the nation's wealthy
citizens to a strengthened central government, the Jeffersonians
unified ordinary men in the southern and middle states, mobilizing
on the national level the power of the popular vote. Their triumph
in 1800 represented a new sectional alliance as well as a potent
fusion of morality and materialism.
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