Kris Maulden's Sections - April 13/14
This week, we'll be discussing chapter 8 in the textbook and unit 6 of the online reader. My questions are fairly broad, so those of you who still need to make your postings (remember, you have to post at least twice this semester) should be able to add more detailed questions or give responses. As for the questions, here they are:
1. Thomas Jefferson and his Republican allies referred to the election of 1800 as a revolution rather than a change in administrations. Why do you think they would make such a claim? (Hint: focus on what they thought about the American Revolution and the Federalists and/or on how you think they defined the word revolution).
2. In the online readings, Hamilton says his bank plan is constitutional because "necessary and proper" meant "useful, or conducive to" the government's interests, and Jefferson replies by saying that Hamilton's interpretation would allow the new federal government "a power to do whatever evil they please" by simply saying their actions were in the country's best interests. Do you see any similarities between the argument over the Bank of the United States and the constitutional discussions about current issues, especially wiretapping and the war in Iraq? Or do you think there are fundamental differences between the issues that are just as important, if not more so?
1. Thomas Jefferson and his Republican allies referred to the election of 1800 as a revolution rather than a change in administrations. Why do you think they would make such a claim? (Hint: focus on what they thought about the American Revolution and the Federalists and/or on how you think they defined the word revolution).
2. In the online readings, Hamilton says his bank plan is constitutional because "necessary and proper" meant "useful, or conducive to" the government's interests, and Jefferson replies by saying that Hamilton's interpretation would allow the new federal government "a power to do whatever evil they please" by simply saying their actions were in the country's best interests. Do you see any similarities between the argument over the Bank of the United States and the constitutional discussions about current issues, especially wiretapping and the war in Iraq? Or do you think there are fundamental differences between the issues that are just as important, if not more so?
posted by Anonymous at 1:17 PM
2 Comments:
I see some simalarities between Hamilton's Bank of the United States and current issues. Both issues are deemed "necessary and proper" to protect America and its people, the bank providing financial securities and current issues providing safety against terrorism.
Emily Crawford
If you were George Washington, would you have signed the bank bill into law? Why do you think Washington agreed with Hamilton on the issue and not Jefferson.
Which revolt against government do you feel had the most impact on American society in the late eighteenth century; the French Revolution or Haitian revolt?
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