This volume documents exhaustively for the first time Edmond
Charles Genet's dramatic challenges to American neutrality and
Jefferson's diplomatic and political responses. After welcoming
Genet's arrival as the harbinger of closer relations between the
American and French republics, Jefferson becomes increasingly
distressed by the French minister's defiance of the Washington
administration's ban on the outfitting of French privateers in
American ports, the enlistment of American citizens in French
service, and the exercise of admiralty jurisdiction by French
consuls in American ports. Although the Supreme Court declines to
advise the executive branch on neutrality questions that Jefferson
prepares with the President and the Cabinet, he helps to formulate
a set of neutrality rules to meet Genet's challenge.Unable to
convince the impetuous French envoy to adopt a more moderate
course, Jefferson works in the Cabinet to bring about Genet's
recall so as to preserve friendly relations with France and
minimize political damage to the Republican party, in which he
takes a more active role to prevent the Federalists from
capitalizing on Genet's defiance of the President. Grappling with
the threat of war with Spain, Jefferson involves himself
equivocally in a diplomatically explosive plan by Genet to liberate
Louisiana from Spanish rule. In this volume Jefferson also plays a
decisive role in resolving a dispute over the design of the Capitol
and plans agricultural improvements at Monticello in preparation
for his retirement to private life.
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