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* 1793 "Citizen Genet" episiode<br><br> | * 1793 "Citizen Genet" episiode<br><br> | ||
* 1794 Whiskey Rebellion <br><br> | * 1794 Whiskey Rebellion <br><br> | ||
* 1797-8: Alien & Sedition Acts | |||
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=== French Revolution & domestic U.S. politics === | === French Revolution & domestic U.S. politics === | ||
* Major Events here | * Major Events here | ||
=== | === Washington Farewell Address === | ||
* | * warned against political parties | ||
* warned against "foreign entanglements" | |||
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*** establish precedents for the office of the President, esp. regarding | *** establish precedents for the office of the President, esp. regarding | ||
**** manner, authority, establishing constitutional arrangements | **** manner, authority, establishing constitutional arrangements | ||
*** establish and protect the powers of the executive branch | |||
*** ensure popular support for new government | *** ensure popular support for new government | ||
**** tours of 1789, 1790, 1791 were designed to promote national unity, display presidency, and promote his policies | **** tours of 1789, 1790, 1791 were designed to promote national unity, display presidency, and promote his policies | ||
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*** the Senate approved the treaty and the House appropriated funding for its enactment, but only after bitter debate | *** the Senate approved the treaty and the House appropriated funding for its enactment, but only after bitter debate | ||
*** the Jay Treaty episode further solidified the partisan/ ideological divide between Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians | *** the Jay Treaty episode further solidified the partisan/ ideological divide between Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians | ||
** Washington declined to run for a 3rd term | ** Washington declined to run for a 3rd term | ||
*** = important example of a leader stepping down from power and supporting a peaceful transfer of power | *** = important example of a leader stepping down from power and supporting a peaceful transfer of power | ||
*** Washington | *** sets precedent for two-term limit for presidents | ||
* Washington declines to run for a 3rd term | |||
** = important example of a leader stepping down from power and supporting a peaceful transfer of power | |||
**** avoid "foreign entanglements" (getting mixed up in the affairs of other countries, especially in Europe) | ** sets precedent for two-term limit for presidents | ||
*** was honored until FDR, although Teddy Roosevelt ran for a third term in 1912 (and lost) | |||
* Washington's '''Farewell Address''' | |||
** a "valedictory address" (via written statement) to the American people in order to articulate his most important advice: | |||
** follow the Constitution (rule of law) in order to ensure "that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual" | |||
*** especially in order to resolve differences | |||
** avoid "combinations and associations" (factions or alliances) that would subvert the Constitution and the national laws | |||
** avoid the "baneful effects of the spirit of party" (political parties) | |||
*** warned against "a small but artful and enterprising minority" faction to seize power and subvert the Union | |||
** warned against "geographical discriminations" (sectional blocks) | |||
** avoid "foreign entanglements" (getting mixed up in the affairs of other countries, especially in Europe) | |||
click EXPAND for excerpt from Washington's Farewell Address: | click EXPAND for excerpt from Washington's Farewell Address: | ||
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<pre>The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts</pre> (for full text see [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Washington%27s_Farewell_Address Washington's Farewell Address (wikisource)] | <pre>The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts</pre> (for full text see [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Washington%27s_Farewell_Address Washington's Farewell Address (wikisource)] | ||
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* '''John Adams''' presidency | |||
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** '''Alien & Sedition Acts, 1797-8: | |||
*** Adams and congressional allies attempted to outlaw dissent | |||
Other: | Other: | ||
* '''Republican Motherhood''' | * '''Republican Motherhood''' | ||