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Ratification

Ratification. How was the Constitution ratified?. Federalist or Anti-Federalist – You decide. “You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.”

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Ratification

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  1. Ratification • How was the Constitution ratified?

  2. Federalist or Anti-Federalist – You decide. • “You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever.” • “Tis really astonishing that the same people who have just emerged from a long and cruel war in defense of liberty, should agree to fix an elective despotism [dictatorship] upon themselves and posterity.” • “They divided the powers, that each branch might be a check upon the other, and I presume that every reasonable man will agree to it.” • “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable to government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.” • “I like the general idea of framing a government, which should go on itself, peaceably, without needing a continual recurrence to the State legislatures….I will now tell you what I do not like. First the omission of a bill of rights….” • What would make the Anti-Federalists happy and likely to support the Constitution?

  3. George Washington • “It seemed to me that Benjamin Franklin was wiser than Washington; Alexander Hamilton was more brilliant; John Adams was better read; Thomas Jefferson was more intellectually sophisticated; James Madison was more politically astute. Yet each and all of these prominent figures acknowledged that Washington was their unquestioned superior.” • Joseph Ellis His Excellency

  4. “I bade adieu to Mt. Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity, and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I care to express, set out for New York.” GW’s journal“…my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.” GW in a letter to Knox If you were GW, what would you have said in your inaugural address?

  5. “We are in a wilderness without a single footstep to guide us.” James Madison“…the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people” GW’s inaugural 7 Precedents set by the first president Inaugural address – “…so help me God.” Mr. President Cabinet: TJ (St) Knox (War) Hamilton($) Randolph (AtGen) Senate can hire, but not fire Cabinet “Aura” of president Lead foreign affairs Two terms

  6. “One side appears to believe that there is a serious plot to overturn the State governments, and substitute a monarchy to the present republican system, whereas the other side firmly believes that there is a serious plot to overturn the general government and elevate the separate powers of the States upon its ruins.” Alexander HamiltonWhich side would Hamilton fall under? Would you consider Hamilton a nationalist or a localist?

  7. Report on Public Credit We’re broke! Report on Manufacturers We have potential! Paterson!!! Assumption Bill, BUS Tariff of 1789, Excise Tax on whiskey, Land Sales Assume/Fund all debt AT FACE VALUE!! ($54mill+$25 mill) Many S states already paid much of their Rev debt Many N states still have high debt Leads to compromise on capital city BUS Strict vs. Loose Necessary and proper? Leads to development of Dem-Reps and Federalists Hamilton’s Financial Plans

  8. Name the document • Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands, of the one part, and France on the other; and the duty and interest of the United States require, that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent Powers;

  9. GW Foreign Affairs • Proclamation of Neutrality 1793 • Genet Affair 1793 • Battle of Fallen Timbers 1794/Treaty of Greenville 1795 • Jay’s Treaty 1794 • Pinckney’s Treaty 1795

  10. GW’s Foreign Policy • Evaluate how Washington handled foreign policy problems/episodes during his administration.

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