Presidents Above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829UNC Press Books, 01.04.2013 - 288 Seiten George Washington's vision was a presidency free of party, a republican, national office that would transcend faction. That vision would remain strong in the administrations of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams, yet largely disappear under Andrew Jackson and his successors. This book is a comprehensive and pathbreaking study of the early presidency and the ideals behind it. Ralph Ketcham examines the roots of nonpartisan leadership in Western thought and the particular influences on the founding fathers. Intellectual and political profiles of the first six presidents and their administrations emphasize the construction each put on the office, the challenges he faced, and the compromises he did and did not make. The erosion of nonpartisanship under Andrew Jackson is presented as a counterpoint that helps define the early presidency and the permanent transition from it. Addressing the thoughtful citizen as well as the scholar, the author poses the fundamental questions about presidential leadership, then and now. The best study of the early presidency, this book is an intellectual portrait of the age that will challenge received notions of American history. |
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... parliament agreed upon and the laws and customs of the same ? " In Britain this arrangement worked well because the power left to the monarch was considerable and well entrenched ; he was still to govern his people . In the colonies ...
... parliament agreed upon and the laws and customs of the same ? " In Britain this arrangement worked well because the power left to the monarch was considerable and well entrenched ; he was still to govern his people . In the colonies ...
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... parliaments ( words of precious esteem in their just signification ) are furiously hurried into actions introducing atheism , and dissolving all the elements of the Christian religion , cancelling all obligations , and destroying all ...
... parliaments ( words of precious esteem in their just signification ) are furiously hurried into actions introducing atheism , and dissolving all the elements of the Christian religion , cancelling all obligations , and destroying all ...
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... parliaments desperate and impossible . " This idealization of monarchy , this sense of a national unity and destiny linked in the person of the king to the moral nature of the universe ( “ divine right " ) , and this con- tempt for ...
... parliaments desperate and impossible . " This idealization of monarchy , this sense of a national unity and destiny linked in the person of the king to the moral nature of the universe ( “ divine right " ) , and this con- tempt for ...
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... parliamentary fiat sovereign ) , Dryden stated his own principles : For who can be secure of private right , If sovereign sway may be dissolv'd by might ? Nor is the people's judgment always true : The most may err as grossly as the few ...
... parliamentary fiat sovereign ) , Dryden stated his own principles : For who can be secure of private right , If sovereign sway may be dissolv'd by might ? Nor is the people's judgment always true : The most may err as grossly as the few ...
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... parliamentary demagogues pandering to popular emotions — or even more than well - intended politi- cians who might ... Parliament . Because he thus reigned as perhaps the first truly constitutional monarch in history , to the Whigs of ...
... parliamentary demagogues pandering to popular emotions — or even more than well - intended politi- cians who might ... Parliament . Because he thus reigned as perhaps the first truly constitutional monarch in history , to the Whigs of ...
Inhalt
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The American Presidency 17891837 | 87 |
Republican Dilemmas Virtue and Commerce Leadership and Party | 163 |
Notes | 237 |
Index | 261 |
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Presidents Above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 Ralph Ketcham Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1987 |
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Abigail Adams accepted Adams's administration admired Alexander Pope American Revolution ancient Augustan Bernard Mandeville Bolingbroke Britain British Buren Cato century Charles Francis Adams Classical colonies commercial common conception Congress Constitution Convention corruption cultural Daniel Defoe defended Defoe democratic Dunciad early presidents economic eighteenth eighteenth-century election England English ethic executive power faction Federal Federalist Franklin George Hamilton ibid idea ideal ideology insisted J. Q. Adams Jackson Jacksonian James Madison Jeffersonian John Adams John Quincy Adams John Winthrop Jonathan Swift legislative legislature liberty Mandeville ment modern monarch Monroe moral nation Number opposition Parliament partisan partisanship patriot king patriot leader Pitt Plutarch political parties president's principles prosperity public philosophy Puritan quoted radical Whig republic republican Revolutionary role rulers scorned self-interest sense six presidents society sought spirit Thomas Jefferson thought tion Tory trade traditional United virtue virtuous Walpole Walpole's Walpolean Washington wealth Wilson Writings wrote York