THOMAS JEFFERSON WHAT A GUY!!!
CHARACTER AS PRESIDENT Good transfer of power “We are all Federalists, we are all Republicans” Starts precedent of sending messages to Congress
What TJ does to help the Common Man: repeals the excise tax repeals the Naturalization Act Alien and Sedition Acts expire
MARBURY v. MADISON Adams creates 16 federal judgeships When TJ becomes president, judges are not sat John Marshall Marbury sues Madison for his seat Uses the 1789 Judiciary Act Marshall: Judiciary Act is unconstitutional Const = Supreme Law of the Land SC = interp Const SC declare laws unconst or not!
JUDICIAL REVIEW! ONLY THE SUPREME COURT HAS THE RIGHT TO DECLARE LAWS CONSTITUTIONAL
As a D-R, TJ believed in: Rights of the Common man big on farming and agriculture states rights strict interp. of the Const. France low tariff small military
REALIZES THAT THEORY DOES NOT WORK OUT IN REALITY!!!!
JEFFERSON’S MILITARY PROBLEMS Army = 2500 men Navy almost nonexistent Barbary Pirates and Pasha of Tripoli Tripoli unofficially declares war on the US
JEFFERSON’S POSITION? Pacifist noninterventionist no large military not like to help with trade BUT . . .?
REALIZES THE THEORY DOES NOT WORK IN REALITY Sends in the small navy begins to build more ships (smaller, faster) begins to understand the importance of trade and defending trade routes
IMPACT? Sets a pattern navy gets experience for the War of 1812 get respect internationally TJ changes a position
Purchasing Louisiana Can the US use the Mississippi? Who owns land west of the Miss when TJ becomes President? But in 1800, Napoleon . . . Why? TJ sends Monroe and Livingston to Paris to buy N.O. and the Floridas Napoleon . . . Wants to sell all of the Louisiana Territory for $15 million
What does TJ do? Does not think the US can buy it? Why not? What does he do? BIG CHANGE!!! Strict to Loose! Theory does not work in Reality! April 1803
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PURCHASE: Doubles the size of the US Absolute control of the Mississippi no more French precedence for buying land D-R = loose!
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION Journals on soil, climate, vegetation, minerals, Indians . . . 2 years, 4 months helped by . . .
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Meanwhile, Britain and France are at war - again! England: Orders in Council French decrees British impressing again (6000 men) who is the US angry at? Especially because of the . . . US trades with both England winning at sea, France winning on land, US winning in getting rich war is at a standstill
CHEASEPEAKE INCIDENT(1807) 10 miles off the coast of Virginia British want to board the ship fires, kills 3 WAR?!!!? No - military too weak so . . .
EMBARGO ACT (1807) NO EXPORTING! Good? Bad? See the beginning of factories in the North (what group did Jefferson like?) Theory versus Reality! president control commerce? Trading going on illegally with Canada March 1809, repeal the Embargo Act replace with the Non-intercourse Act (1809)