Carole Bucy
Osher Livelong Learning - Class 1
January 19, 2016
The Temple, Nashville
“Few of their children in the country learn English... The
signs in our streets have inscriptions in both languages
... Unless the stream of their importation could be
turned they will soon so outnumber us that all the
advantages we have will not be able to preserve our
language, and even our government will become
precarious.”
 England
 Henry VIII – Broke with the Catholic Church
 13 Colonies were settled along Eastern Seaboard of
North America, beginning in 1607.
 Puritan Revolution – Oliver Cromwell
 The Protectorate
 The Restoration of the Monarch – Charles II
 Question of who would succeed Charles II, his brother,
James? Why not?
 The Glorious Revolution – William & Mary
 Big bureaucracies were bad
 Wanted more local control
 BUT were now in a war against Great Britain
 Articles of Confederation
 Independence
What did the colonies want to be?
Many opinions about what should be done
Calling of the constitutional Convention
Could a document creating a stronger national
government be ratified?
 Total of 85 papers.
 1-36 address weaknesses
of the Articles.
 37-85 specifically discuss
each section of the
Constitution.
 Anti-Federalists
• Too much power
concentrated in
central
government.
• Constitution takes
away power from
the states.
George Clinton
Patrick Henry
 National debt: over $54,000,000.
 State debts: $21,500,000 total
 Can they pay their debts?
 How can this problem be manipulated to gain
support for the new Federal Government?
 1st objective: to bolster the national credit
 Funding the national debt at par
 Assumption
 Which states will support Hamilton’s Plan?
 Opposition? Why?
It’s Time for a
Compromise.
Federal City
 The District of Columbia
 Site on the Potomac
 Pierre Charles L-Enfant
 Hamilton’s Report on Manufacturing: The
Tariff – Why?
 Excise tax – What should be taxed?
 Theory of Strict Construction
 The powers of the national government are
ENUMERATED in the Constitution.
 Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court can
only do those tasks expressly
in the Constitution.
enumerated
Theory of Loose
Construction
How can you justify this?
It is IMPLIED in Article 1,
Section 8 in the ELASTIC
CLAUSE.
The Two Political Parties, 1793-1800
The Hamiltonians
The Jeffersonians
Strong central government with strong
executive
Weak central government with weak
executive
Government support for commerce
No
Pro-British
Pro-French
Pro-international Trade
Against international trade
Sell public lands to speculators
Sell public lands to farmers
Strong army
Weak army
Central Bank
Anti-Bank
Party of the Elite
Party of the People?????
Federalists
Republicans
Map Source: www.tngenweb.org
Map Source: Library of Congress, www.loc.gov
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Blamed Republicans
Did not Buy Bonds
Traded with Britain
Did not send militia
Met in Hartford in Secret (Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
New Hampshire, Vermont) for 3 weeks to discuss secession
The Hartford Convention